Quotes from benford gregory ii

Maybe is not a theory, you know, it is merely maybe.

He went to Los Angeles to do the work even though he hated the city; it was full of happy homogeneous people without structure or direction. While on the bus to work, it seemed to him Los Angeles went on long after it had already made its point.

This was what never failed to stir her--the unfathomable gulf between today's thinking and the way the ancients thought. They were truly alien, not merely innocent agrarians with a foolish faith.

If you were damned certain you weren't looking for something, there was a very good chance you wouldn't see it.

Marches don't stop markets.

Talkers never acted when they could talk.

People said that mathematicians were unworldly, and yammered on about how Einstein couldn't make correct change. Nonsense. Einstein just didn't give a damn. It was the subtle, the beautiful that concerned him.

The role of boredom in human history is underrated.

Every boy knows he is immortal, but his parents, they are not so sure.

Thunder impresses, but it's lightning does the work.

They will do anything for the worker, except become one.

He didn't regret growing older, it was a privilege denied to many.