The Habit-forming Pain, Mismanagement And Grief: We

No Human Being Is Innocent, But There Is A Class Of Innocent Human Actions Called Games.

The Closest Modern Equivalent To The Homeric Hero Is The Ace Fighter Pilot.

How Happy Is The Lot Of The Mathematician! He Is Judged Solely By His Peers, And The Standard Is So High That No Colleague Or Rival Can Ever Win A Reputation He Does Not Deserve. No Cashier Writes A Letter To The Press Complaining About The Incomprehensibility Of Modern Mathematics And Comparing It Unfavorably With The Good Old Days When Mathematicians Were Content To Paper Irregularly Shaped Rooms And Fill Bathtubs Without Closing The Waste Pipe.

We Were Put On This Earth To Make Things.

The Commonest Ivory Tower Is That Of The Average Man, The State Of Passivity Towards Experience.