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It has adopted the geometry most advantageous to the species or, in other words, the most convenient. ↗

— Henri Poincare

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The big new development in my life is, when I turned 80, I decided I no longer have to do four pages a day. For me, it's like retiring. ↗

— Frederik Pohl

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To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed. ↗

— Sidney Poitier

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The mathematical facts worthy of being studied are those which, by their analogy with other facts, are capable of leading us to the knowledge of a physical law. ↗

— Henri Poincare

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Thus, they are free to replace some objects by others so long as the relations remain unchanged. ↗

— Henri Poincare

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What is it indeed that gives us the feeling of elegance in a solution, in a demonstration? ↗

— Henri Poincare

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It would be ideal if we could have an uncontrolled flow of information. But we realized you can't do that. ↗

— John Poindexter

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Nobody - myself included - believes that we could ever achieve total information awareness. But the government needs to set goals and long-range objectives. Total information awareness is a good goal. ↗

— John Poindexter

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TIA was being used by real users, working on real data - foreign data. Data where privacy is not an issue. ↗

— John Poindexter

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We wanted to be as expansive as possible to make sure we didn't preclude some good ideas. ↗

— John Poindexter

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