#cons

The traditional mathematician recognizes and appreciates mathematical elegance when he sees it. I propose to go one step further, and to consider elegance an essential ingredient of mathematics: if it is clumsy, it is not mathematics. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#clumsy #consider #elegance #essential #further

We really got a lot of very conservative gay people. You could look at the figures from the last election and realize that a third of the gay movement voted Republican. ↗

— Kate Clinton

#could #election #figures #gay #gay movement

If Bill Finger created Batman, where is Bill Finger's byline on my strip? It is conspicuous by its absence. ↗

— Bob Kane

#batman #bill #conspicuous #created #finger

Always be consistent. ↗

— Casey Kasum

#consistent

The desire to see Okinawa returned to Japan developed into a broad national consensus among our people. ↗

— Eisaku Sato

#broad #consensus #desire #developed #into

Last year, I co-sponsored the Highlands Conservation Act and in a bipartisan effort we passed the bill through Congress. ↗

— Sue Kelly

#bill #bipartisan #congress #conservation #effort

Be able to read blueprints, diagrams, floorplans, and other diagrams used in the construction process. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#blueprints #construction #diagrams #other #process

I think the rising and falling popularity of areas like hard SF and far-future SF is, to a considerable extent, the same as any other fashion. ↗

— Stanley Schmidt

#areas #considerable #extent #falling #fashion

For me, living in the closet corroded my ability to have an honest, open relationship with my God, my loved ones, my constituency and myself. ↗

— James McGreevey

#closet #constituency #god #honest #living

There is an irresistible demand to strengthen the leadership of the constructive forces of the world at the present momentous time. This is true because of stupendous, almost unbelievable changes which have taken place in recent years on every continent. ↗

— John Raleigh Mott

#because #changes #constructive #continent #demand