#them

My parents told us how they felt but never imposed their beliefs on us, although I appreciate I got a healthy sense of democracy from them. ↗

— Ahmet Zappa

#appreciate #beliefs #democracy #felt #got

Most people wouldn't know music if it came up and bit them on the ass. ↗

— Frank Zappa

#bit #came #know #most #music

It is time that we provide clarity for our seniors, informing them of the services available that will lower the costs of their prescription drugs and strengthen the overall integrity of the Medicare entitlement. ↗

— Olympia Snowe

#clarity #costs #entitlement #informing #integrity

My foundations support people in the country who care about an open society. It's their work that I'm supporting. So it's not me doing it. But I can empower them. I can support them, and I can help them. ↗

— George Soros

#care #country #doing #empower #foundations

One can be enlightened about proofs as well as theorems. Without enlightenment, one is merely reduced to memorizing proofs. With enlightenment about a proof, its flow becomes clear and it can become an item of astonishing beauty. In addition, the need to memorize disappears because the proof has become part of your soul. ↗

— Herbert S. Gaskill

#beauty

If we increase r [in a logistic map] even more, we will eventually force the system into a period-8 limit cycle, then a period-16 cycle, and so on. The amount that we have to increase r to get another period doubling gets smaller and smaller for each new bifurcation. This cascade of period doublings is reminiscent of the race between Achilles and the tortoise, in that an infinite number of bifurcations (or time steps in the race) can be confined to a local region of finite size. At a very special critical value, the dynamical system will fall into what is essentially an infinite-period limit cycle. This is chaos. ↗

— Gary William Flake

#mathematics #beauty

Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty—a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#beauty #math #mathematics #sculpture #art

It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#business #how #learn #none #their

Poets have to be sensitive to their audience, but it does not mean that they censor themselves. I realise my audience is diverse. Some will read with empathy and curiosity while others will take offense. ↗

— John Barton

#censor #curiosity #diverse #does #empathy

Storage is important. Whether it's cushions you only use outside in the summer, or blankets that only come out in the winter, you've always got to think of where to store them. ↗

— Anthea Turner

#blankets #come #cushions #got #important