Applied Math Quotes

#1. As an undergraduate at Columbia, I went to the engineering school. I had a great deal of training in engineering and mathematics as well as subdiversified training. And then I went to the California Institute of Technology to do my Ph.D. in applied math.

Robert C. Merton

#2. Nothing beats that moment of revelation when shyness loses ground to boldness, and quiet moans turn into squeals and swearing.

Paulo Coelho

#3. Applied war is where the money's at. I don't mean that figuratively. Defense is 140% of the UVE budget. Offense is twice that. This is possible because there is no budget for math education.

Zach Weinersmith

#4. Being vulgar is fine, but oh please just don't be boring.

Diana Vreeland

#5. We worked under a lot of pressure ... three days to do an episode, sometimes two in a week, 39 episodes a year.

Lloyd Bridges

#6. I think I was first awakened to musical exploration by Dizzy Gillespie and Bird. It was through their work that I began to learn about musical structures and the more theoretical aspects of music.

John Coltrane

#7. Life is too complex to compress into soundbites. Every situation is different.

Sarah Brightman

#8. I looked to the clock, the one with the hands I could feel.

Aleatha Romig

#9. It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles - the oppression of tyranny - to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.

Abraham Lincoln

#10. My father's wit, and my mother's tongue, assist me!

William Shakespeare

#11. There is no branch of mathematics, however abstract, which may not some day be applied to phenomena of the real world.

Nikolai Lobachevsky