Quotes About Permutation

We have not begun to understand the relationship between combinatorics and conceptual mathematics.

In the infinite permutation of an ice crystal, everything repeats itself, but, really, from another point of view, nothing repeats itself.

it is relatively easy to scramble an egg, but to unscramble it is far harder.

: There are only two on-buttons for fear, in any permutation you want. One is when something that shouldn't be is, meaning a presence. And, the other one is an absence.

The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.

every possible Euclidean and non-Euclidean permutation of lights; ten thousand lights, ten million lights, the ten billion lights of Great Yu, each one a voice calling, "I is what I am! Notice me! Notice me!

that's why we need recursion here: the number of nested loops is arbitrary, and depends on the length of the sequence permuted:

The I is such that it can assert itself, absolve itself, undergo countless permutations.