Category Theory Quotes

#1. We'll only use as much category theory as is necessary. Famous last words ...

Roman Abramovich

#2. Jean-Pierre Marquis, From a Geometrical Point of View: A Study of the History and Philosophy of Category Theory, Springer Science & Business Media, 2008.

Roger Scruton

#3. Work hard and party harder...

Aman

#4. Things can be funny only when we are in fun. When we're 'dead earnest,' humor is the only thing that is dead.

Flip Wilson

#5. Every GI signs a blank check, payable to the United States, drawn in an amount up to and including his life.

G.E. Nolly

#6. I think the U.S. economy wants to be strong. It wants to be.

Mary Callahan Erdoes

#7. And here I am, instead of there. I'm sitting in this library, thousands of miles from my life, writing another letter I know I won't be able to send, no matter how hard I try and how much I want to. How did that boy making love behind that shed become this man writing this letter at this table?

Jonathan Safran Foer

#8. For once the crofter was at a a rather loss for words, for to him nothing has ever been more completely unintelligible than the reasoning that is bred of tears.

Halldor Laxness

#9. Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;

Ray Bradbury

#10. The wisdom of crowds works when the crowd is choosing the price of an ox, when there's a single numeric average. But if it's a design or something that matters, the decision is made by committee, and that's crap. You want people and groups who are able to think thoughts before they share.

Jaron Lanier

#11. From the psychological point of view, the self-asserting emotions, derived from emergency reactions, involve a narrowing of consciousness; the participatory emotions an expansion of consciousness by identificatory processes of various kinds.

Arthur Koestler

#12. I was the first actress in the family, and I am still the only actress in the family. I shouldn't be saying it, but it slipped out!

Eva Gabor

#13. This battle was far beyond her ability or his. Only God could save her life now. Without a miracle, she couldn't look forward to much more than the next day.

Karen Kingsbury

#14. I was a pretty delinquent little kid. My folks and I didn't get along, so I basically moved out ... put myself through high school and then college by working. I'm only a half-year short of a degree in history.

Al Jourgensen

#15. I made a photograph of a garden in Kyoto, the Zen garden, which is a rectangle. But a photograph taken from any one point will not show, well it shows a rectangle, but not with ninety degree angles.

David Hockney

#16. Some people would claim that things like love, joy and beauty belong to a different category from science and can't be described in scientific terms, but I think they can now be explained by the theory of evolution.

Stephen Hawking

#17. A Palestinian state will never be created by terror.

Elliott Abrams