Daily FortunesNov 17, 2016
I tell them to turn to the study of mathematics, for it is only... I tell them to turn to the study of mathematics, for it is only there that
they might escape the lusts of the flesh.
-- Thomas Mann, "The Magic Mountain"
"I think it is true for all n. I was just playing it safe... "I think it is true for all n. I was just playing it safe with n >= 3
because I couldn't remember the proof."
-- Baker, Pure Math 351a
I THINK MAN INVENTED THE CAR by instinct.
--... I THINK MAN INVENTED THE CAR by instinct.
-- Jack Handley, The New Mexican, 1988.
"I think the sky is blue because it's a shift from black... "I think the sky is blue because it's a shift from black through purple
to blue, and it has to do with where the light is. You know, the
farther we get into darkness, and there's a shifting of color of light
into the blueness, and I think as you go farther and farther...
I THINK THERE SHOULD BE SOMETHING in science called... I THINK THERE SHOULD BE SOMETHING in science called the "reindeer effect."
I don't know what it would be, but I think it'd be good to hear someone say,
"Gentlemen, what we have here is a terrifying example of the reindeer effect."
-- Jack...
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Daily Fortunes for Nov 17, 2016
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