Gil Kalai quotes
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“Counting pairs is the oldest trick in combinatorics... Every time we count pairs, we learn something from it.”
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“The book is so rich and yet it is well done. A rare achievement indeed!”
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“Like musicians who can read and write complicated scores in a world without sounds, for us mathematics is a source of delight, excitement, and even controversy which are hard to share with non mathematicians. In our small micro-cosmos we should ever seek the right balance between competition and solidarity, criticism and empathy, exclusion and inclusion.”
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“As for explaining mathematical phenomena it opens the question: explaining to whom? humans?, other computers?”
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“My parents lived likeas the neighbours described thema pair of chopsticks, always in harmony.”
Source : 1993 Red Azalea.
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Source : Bette Greene (2000). “Summer of my German soldier”
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“If we start counting our chickens before they hatch, they won't lay any eggs in the basket”
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“He's my client, and he's counting on me. I'll take him, warts and all.”
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“People want to see something that shows them you can do what you say. That's the trick.”
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