Commutative Quotes

#1. Commutative algebra is a lot like topology, only backwards.

John C. Baez

#2. The approach of von Neumann and Connes to the use of non-commutative algebra in physics is naive, the situation is much more complicated.

Israel Gelfand

#3. I'm a young guy called 'commutative ring', but I was originally 'the ring of continuous functions on a compact Hausdorff space'. Now I am an algebraic object, so I must say goodbye to my home village, the space, but I will always keep it in my heart as a set of maximal ideals.

Kato

#4. They have the idea that non-commutative algebra should remind one of commutative algebra, but the former is more sophisticated. I believe that non-commutative algebra is just as simple, but it is different.

Israel Gelfand

#5. All aboard for one last trip.

Rick Riordan

#6. I think that men has the most highly developed intelligence. I think men get so intelligent that they're stupid.

Don Van Vliet

#7. Torture, including practices like waterboarding, violates the legal and moral standards of all civilized nations.

Jerrold Nadler

#8. I've always been a 'write first' artist: the drawings are always in service of the writing.

Jeffrey Brown

#9. Better she left him before he left her for someone young with a belly full of immortal possibilities.

Sarah McCoy

#10. The nightingale is sovereign of song.

Edmund Spenser