Hendrik Lenstra Quotes

#1. Shamanism is just show business and philosophy is just a branch of that vaudevillian impulse.

Terence McKenna

#2. We are all born with a unique genetic blueprint, which lays out the basic characteristics of our personality as well as our physical health and appearance ... And yet, we all know that life experiences do change us.

Joan D. Vinge

#3. Don't add an eezy to my name, 'cause it has never been that'

Donald Glover

#4. Recreational number theory [ ... ] is that part of number theory that is too difficult to study.

Hendrik Lenstra

#5. She is magnificent. I cannot deny it.

Giselle Simlett

#6. I busted out of the place in a hurry and went to a saloon and drank beer and said that for the rest of my life I'd never take a job in a place where you couldn't throw cigarette butts on the floor. I was hooked on this writing for newspapers and magazines.

Jimmy Breslin

#7. It's quite funny that, 20 years ago, one would have thought putting out a fragrance would [negatively] affect your musical credibility. Now it may enhance it.

Bryan Ferry

#8. I have strengths, and I have weaknesses. I don't pretend to be able to write a great thesis or doctorate - I have no pretensions in that direction.

Bob Ainsworth

#9. I wasn't lonely. I experienced no self-pity. I was just caught up in a life in which I could find no meaning.

Charles Bukowski

#10. When you're the person who's kind of in charge of everything a lot of the time, it's sometimes nice to get bossed around. It's sometimes nice to have somebody say, "This is what I want you to do" and to stretch your abilities.

Kathleen Hanna

#11. Music is part of Number Theory. Nowadays when a number-theorist applies for a grant, he says that it is good for security, but in those days, way before America, he would say that it's good for music. I will not comment whether we have progressed ...

Hendrik Lenstra

#12. What the hell did he ramble on about? Werewolves?" "Vampires." "Yeah. That's not a sign that you're doing so damned great, is it?" The

John Ajvide Lindqvist

#13. The main application of Pure Mathematics is to make you happy.

Hendrik Lenstra

#14. A math lecture without a proof is like a movie without a love scene. This talk has two proofs.

Hendrik Lenstra

#15. I've always loved groups like U2 and Coldplay.

Richard Marx

#16. She, the first-born daughter of water, faced
darkness and smiled. Took mystery as her
lover and raised light as her child. Man that
shit was wild. You should have seen how
they ran. She woke up in an alley with a gun
in her hand. Tupac in lotus form, Ennis' blood
on his hands.

Saul Williams