Combinatorics Quotes

#1. 'You might think of combinatorics as a machine too', the major says. 'A different sort of machine, though. Have you heard of Babbage's analytic engine? He never built it ... I have an analytic machine of my own-right here.' He taps his own skull.

David Leavitt

#2. Journalists say that when a dog bites a man, that is not news, but when a man bites a dog, that is news ... Thanks to the mathematics of combinatorics, we will never run out of news.

Steven Pinker

#3. We don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all junction types
in the absence of quantum computing the combinatorics are not in our favor ...

Larry Wall

#4. Computers are here to stay. It is a major challenge for the future to use computers efficiently in combinatorics without losing its special appeal.

Noga Alon

#5. He was convinced this was a bribe, a kickback, to some Pentagon big shot, and he wanted proof. But that was a tall order, even to someone as brilliant as your brother. It's a little like understanding algebraic combinatorics if you still don't get long division.

Joseph Finder

#6. The emphasis on mathematical methods seems to be shifted more towards combinatorics and set theory - and away from the algorithm of differential equations which dominates mathematical physics.

John Von Neumann

#7. Combinatorics, a sort of glorified dice-throwing.

Robert Kanigel

#8. We have not begun to understand the relationship between combinatorics and conceptual mathematics.

Jean Dieudonne

#9. Counting pairs is the oldest trick in combinatorics ... Every time we count pairs, we learn something from it.

Gil Kalai

#10. Cryptography has generated number theory, algebraic geometry over finite fields, algebra, combinatorics and computers.

Vladimir Arnold

#11. I loved buildings that had grown silently with the centuries, catching the best of each generation while time curbed the artist's pride and the philistine's vulgarity and repaired the clumsiness of the dull workman.

Evelyn Waugh

#12. My firm has 25,000 high-net-worth clients. A typical account would be that of a couple aged 65 and 60 who need their money to last the rest of their lives, 25 to 35 years.

Kenneth Fisher

#13. What on earth was Henry talking about?'
'His soul. I wonder where he keeps it.

John Mortimer

#14. Look, architecture has a lot of places to hide behind, a lot of excuses. 'The client made me do this.' 'The city made me do this.' 'Oh, the budget.' I don't believe that anymore.

Frank Gehry

#15. All major changes are like death. You can't see to the other side until you are there.

Michael Crichton

#16. This is what helps me sleep at night. Knowing that one of us stood up and refused to take it. One of us said, Fuck you, and struck back.
One of us became the wolf and bloodied her jaws so that others can live without fear.

Leah Raeder