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• Quote #267 The ultimate goal of mathematics is to eliminate all need for intelligent thought.
  -- Graham, Knuth and Patashnik, ``Concrete Mathematics'', (p. 56)...
• We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.
  -- Maria Mitchell...
• The structure of the joke is the juxtaposition of the trivial and the mundane.
  We have to reconcile the paradox of it all. The joke mirrors the paradox. -- Woody Alle...
• The trivial round, the common task, Would furnish all we ought to ask.
  -- John Keble (1792-1866) -- Morning...
• Yea from the table of my memory I'll wipe away all trivial fond records. -- Hamle
• The reason that every major university maintains a department of mathematics is that it is cheaper to do this than to institutionalize all those people.
• This method is, to define as the number of a class the class of all classes similar to the given class.
  -- Bertrand Russell (1872-1967), "Principles of Mathematic...
• The reason that every major university maintains a department of mathematics is that it's cheaper than institutionalizing all those people.