Eglash Ron Quotes

#1. I'm not sure what it is, but you look like you've made and broken a lot of things and then made them all over again.

Kiera Cass

#2. Action without planning is the cause of all failure. Action with planning is the cause of all success.

Brian Tracy

#3. Continue to share your heart with people even if it has been broken.

Amy Poehler

#4. My assumption was that all indigenous architecture would be more fractal. My reasoning was that all indigenous architecture tends to be organized from the bottom up. As it turns out, though, my reasoning was wrong.

Ron Eglash

#5. The best thing we can do is give students the tools for constructing their own identities - powerful new tools like African fractals - and then just get out of the way.

Ron Eglash

#6. Life is to complex to just run away. Love is to close to be grabbed. Never repeat the truest of lovely words.

Felisha Rush

#7. Personal power is the ability to stand on your own two feet with a smile on your face in the middle of a universe that contains a million ways to crush you.

J.Z. Colby

#8. The ultimate lesson is that there is no immunity, no matter our age or the size of our retirement account, from going through constant cycles of integration and disintegration in which we are humbled and hopefully set to rights with the world again.

David Whyte

#9. When Europeans first came to Africa, they considered the architecture very disorganized and thus primitive. It never occurred to them that the Africans might have been using a form of mathematics that they hadn't even discovered yet.

Ron Eglash

#10. Fractal geometry is everywhere, even in lines drawn in the sand. It's the cycle of life ... You see fractals in plants, in flowers. Within the human lung are branches within branches.

Ron Eglash

#11. It's American Alternative radio stations that bug me. We're considered Alternative, but don't expect us to be played next to Blink 182 and Offspring. We're hardly of that generation.

Thurston Moore

#12. Mathematicians didn't invent infinity until 1877. So they thought it was impossible that Africans could be using fractal geometry.

Ron Eglash

#13. Creating a body of mathematics is about intellectual labor, not some kind of transcendental revelation. There are plenty of important components of European fractal geometry that are missing from the African version.

Ron Eglash

#14. While fractal geometry is often used in high-tech science, its patterns are surprisingly common in traditional African designs.

Ron Eglash

#15. Poverty and lack of education are ruining our planet.

Oscar Arias

#16. There is no singular 'reason' why Africans use fractals, any more than a singular reason why Americans like rock music. Such enormous cultural practices just cover too much social terrain.

Ron Eglash

#17. I think every period - except for the 14th century, or something - has some merits.

Julian Fellowes

#18. I just toured around looking for fractals, and when I found something that had a scaling geometry, I would ask the folks what was going on - why they had made it that way.

Ron Eglash

#19. The high domed ceiling put me in mind of a skull, a brain, a mind. What did that make us, the readers?

Lia Mills

#20. If you take your thumb and your index finger and look right where they meet - go ahead and do that now - and relax your hand, you'll see a crinkle, and then a wrinkle within the crinkle, and a crinkle within the wrinkle. Right? Your body is covered with fractals.

Ron Eglash

#21. I'm a human being and I fall in love and sometimes I don't have control of every situation.

Beyonce Knowles

#22. I don't feel that I wanted to spend my whole writing life - which is my life - writing detective stories.

Ruth Rendell

#23. I'm telling the story, and if I can't tell the story, I'm not going to sing it. And if I don't agree with the story, and if I got to sing something that portrays me as something I'm not, then I'm not going to sing it either. I didn't even want to sing Aretha Franklin's 'Chain of Fools.'

Sharon Jones

#24. The reason that Google was such a success is because they were the first ones to take advantage of the self-organizing properties of the web. It's in ecological sustainability. It's in the developmental power of entrepreneurship, the ethical power of democracy.

Ron Eglash

#25. Now in the 1980s, I happened to notice that if you look at an aerial photograph of an African village, you see fractals. And I thought, 'This is fabulous! I wonder why?' And of course I had to go to Africa and ask folks why.

Ron Eglash