Frank James famous quotes

The Internet is clearly about more than sports scores and email now. It's a place where we can conduct our democracy and get very large amounts of data to very large numbers of people.
-- Frank James

#Sports #Data #Numbers

I was tired of an outlaw's life.
-- Frank James

#Tired #Outlaw

When I slept it was literally in the midst of an arsenal. If I heard dogs bark more fiercely than usual, or the feet of horses in a greater volume of sound than usual, I stood to arms.
-- Frank James

#Dog #Horse #Feet

At Sun, we have a special number you can call if there is something important happening.
-- Frank James

#Numbers #Special #Important

I have been hunted for twenty-one years. I have literally lived in the saddle. I have never known a day of perfect peace.
-- Frank James

#Years #Perfect #Twenties

I was tired of an outlaw's life. I have been hunted for twenty-one years. I have literally lived in the saddle. I have never known a day of perfect peace. It was one long, anxious, inexorable, eternal vigil. When I slept it was literally in the midst of an arsenal. If I heard dogs bark more fiercely than usual, or the feet of horses in a greater volume of sound than usual, I stood to arms. Have you any idea of what a man must endure who leads such a life? No, you cannot. No one can unless he lives it for himself.
-- Frank James

#Dog #Horse #Tired

I want results when I fight.
-- Frank James

#Fighting #Want #Results

I've always envied the kind of coach who could go completely out of his mind and nobody would know the difference.

Boxing is an all year round sport. You never know when they're going to call you, so you got to stay ready.

Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.

It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.

The search which takes place in my studio might best be described as a mining operation, a vertical dig in which a number of discoveries are apt to surface from a single shaft.

If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution.

We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven; we have been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity; we have grown in numbers, wealth, and power as no other nation has ever grown.

Arithmetic starts with the integers and proceeds by successively enlarging the number system by rational and negative numbers, irrational numbers, etc... But the next quite logical step after the reals, namely the introduction of infinitesimals, has simply been omitted. I think, in coming centuries it will be considered a great oddity in the history of mathematics that the first exact theory of infinitesimals was developed 300 years after the invention of the differential calculus.

Pray tell us, what's your favorite number?"... "Shiva jumped up to the board, uninvited, and wrote 10,213,223"... "And pray, why would this number interest us?" "It is the only number that describes itself when you read it, 'One zero, two ones, three twos, two threes'.

A mathematician's reputation rests on the number of bad proofs he has given.