Peter Sarnak quotes

“Doing research in mathematics is frustrating and if being frustrated is something you cannot get used to, then mathematics may not be an ideal occupation for you.”
-- Peter Sarnak

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“Real numbers are good if you add the word 'random'.”
-- Peter Sarnak

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“The Torus is my enemy!”
-- Peter Sarnak

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“My experience of test screenings is that you don't know what kind of mood people are going to be in, and sometimes the studios accept what Joe Blo says - and this guy could just be a frustrated filmmaker, or not paying attention.”

“It would be a pity if, frustrated by the price of travel, we elected to become a society that never made contact, that never gave SETI a fair chance.”

Source : Bernard M. Oliver, Len Cutler (1997). “The Selected Papers of Bernard M. Oliver”

“You're always frustrated, you don't have the chance to do a song on the album, like the Beatles did with Ringo and George, or like Led Zeppelin, where everybody was given a chance to contribute. There never is a chance with the Stones.”

“I was very good at sitting. But I just read so much research about how horrible sitting is for you. It's like, it's really bad. It's like Paula-Deen-glazed-bacon-doughnut bad. So I now move around as much as possible.”

“I love market research because you really have an idea of what your consumers are looking for.”

“How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all.”

“To endow clock time with numinous meaning [is] hardly a fit occupation for an intelligent person.”

Source : Alan McGlashan (1988). “The Savage and Beautiful Country: The Secret Life of the Mind”, p.112, Daimon

“Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read.”

“The main Objective of any operation in an open file is the eventual Occupation of the seventh or eighth Rank.”

“Collecting at its best is very far from mere acquisitiveness; it may become one of the most humanistic of occupations, seeking to illustrate by the assembling of significant reliques, the march of the human spirit in its quest for beauty...”