Francois Le Lionnais quotes

“Who has not been amazed to learn that the function y = ex, like a phoenix rising from its own ashes, is its own derivative?”
-- Francois Le Lionnais

Source : François Le Lionnais (2004). “Great Currents of Mathematical Thought: Marthematics in the Arts and Sciences”, p.126, Courier Corporation

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“Collect as precious pearls the words of the wise and virtuous.”

“My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.”

“I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas.”

“Learning (Shakespeare's plays) ...in school was a bit of a bore.”

“A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.”

Source : "Epigrams on Programming". ACM SIGPLAN Notices 17 (9), pp. 7-13, pu.inf.uni-tuebingen.de. September 1982.

“It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.”

“I'm like a phoenix. I rise from the ashes.”

“I'd love to talk to Joaquin Phoenix because he's a very private guy. Also, he's creating a new kind of sexy leading man. To me, his face is new and might be legendary someday.”

“Death is not rare, alas! nor burials few, And soon the grassy coverlet of God Spreads equal green above their ashes pale.”

Source : Bayard Taylor (1867). “The Picture of St. John”, p.168

“I had been playing for a while, and I asked Louisville Slugger to send me a dozen flame treated bats. But when I got it, I realized they had sent me a box of ashes.”