Tao Terence Quotes

#1. Pointing out that countless great mathematicians had tried to solve the problem and failed before you came along is in particularly bad taste and should be avoided completely.

Terence Tao

#2. Education is a complex, multifaceted, and painstaking process, and being gifted does not make this less so.

Terence Tao

#3. There are moments when television systems are young and haven't formed properly, and there's room for lots of original stuff. Then things become more and more top-heavy with executives who are trying to guarantee the success of things.

Terry Gilliam

#4. A shot rang out from the rifle of an alerted Harvestman, and just as the sound reached Nathaniel's ears, he felt the hot streak of a bullet pierce his left arm, spattering blood on the ground before him.

Jonathan Marker

#5. Ultimately you should follow advice not because someone tells you to, but because it was something that you already knew you should be doing.

Terence Tao

#6. Unsolicited surprise requests from strangers are essentially guaranteed to be met with a negative response.

Terence Tao

#7. Light is the photographic medium par excellence; it is to the photographer what words are to the writer; color and paint to the painter; wood, metal, stone, or clay to the sculptor.

Andreas Feininger

#8. All human beings have a great agency for being part of a team.

Jim Harbaugh

#9. Lettuce is too Flat

Mary Rayner

#10. Politics is the polite way of telling somone else they're stupid.

Burnie Burns

#11. Not every man with a heart is understanding, nor every man with an ear a listener, and nor every man with eyes able to see.

Ali Ibn Abi Talib

#12. My idea of enlightenment is when ego and Tao are fused, and Tao is perceived as ego. Then everything happens with complete appropriateness.

Terence McKenna

#13. Volume grows spatially slower than scaling.

Terence Tao

#14. At a purely formal level, one could call probability theory the study of measure spaces with total measure one, but that would be like calling number theory the study of strings of digits which terminate.

Terence Tao

#15. I just try to think of all the things that could go wrong so in that split second when it happens, maybe your body reacts in a way where it protects you just a little.

Johnny Knoxville

#16. You will ride the Tao
toward the concrescence
and will be able to live in the light
of its anticipation.

Terence McKenna

#17. It can often be profitable to try a technique on a problem even if you know in advance that it cannot possibly solve the problem completely.

Terence Tao