Dantzig Quotes

#1. The harmony of the universe knows only one musical form - the legato; while the symphony of number knows only its opposite - the staccato. All attempts to reconcile this discrepancy are based on the hope that an accelerated staccato may appear to our senses as a legato.

Tobias Dantzig

#2. Every guitar has a personality.

Jol Dantzig

#3. I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty ... But I am too busy thinking about myself.

Edith Sitwell

#4. Are not most professional mathematicians spared all trouble incident to income?

Tobias Dantzig

#5. You must have been traumatized beyond fucking belief

David Foster Wallace

#6. The importance of infinite processes for the practical exigencies of technical life can hardly be overemphasized. Practically all applications of arithmetic to geometry, mechanics, physics and even statistics involve these processes directly and indirectly.

Tobias Dantzig

#7. I've made plenty of mistakes as a keeper, that's for sure. I'll make plenty more before I'm through.

Tim Howard

#8. In the history of culture the discovery of zero will always stand out as one of the greatest single achievements of the human race.

Tobias Dantzig

#9. True optimization is the revolutionary contribution of modern research to decision processes.

George Dantzig

#10. Mathematics is the supreme judge; from its decisions there is no appeal.

Tobias Dantzig

#11. Linear programming can be viewed as part of a great revolutionary development which has given mankind the ability to state general goals and to lay out a path of detailed decisions to take in order to "best" achieve its goals when faced with practical situations of great complexity.

George Dantzig

#12. Are you alive, do you still exist?

Rudi Van Dantzig

#13. I have no answer for her. But I look into her face, her pale cheeks, her red lips bright with life and tender as an infant's, and I understand that I love her. And if she is everything, maybe that's

Isaac Marion

#14. Believe me when I say that some of the most amazing music in history was made on equipment that's not as good as what you own right now.

Jol Dantzig

#15. The big opportunity - and where the most disruption is - is in local media.

Vivian Schiller

#16. Compassion and kindness are powers unto themselves if wielded correctly.

Karen Lynch

#17. I went to acting school, but only for nine months. If you're an actor, you know, don't really need to learn how to do it.

Patrick Macnee