Interfaces at all levels should avoid proprietary solutions. -- Marine Corps Space Doctrine: Joint Mission Need Statement for the Global Broadcast Service, MNS 95215JA, approved 1995-08-03 [1]
New knowledge is not created by the exercise of old doctrine, but through continuous experimentation at all levels. -- Vice Admiral Arthur K. Cebrowski, President, Naval War College; Director, Navy Doctrine Command; in a statement before the United States of America House of Representatives Armed Services Committee Subcommittee on Research and Development and Procurement hearing on network-centric warfare and information superiority, 1999-02-23 [2]
Math is like love -- a simple idea but it can get complicated. -- R. Drabek
Since it's a product, we take the log. -- Professor David Mumford, on parametric modeling of probability distributions
The transversality arguments, it seems to us, can be visualized by the student, something which we feel cannot be honestly said of the singular homology functor. -- Guillemin and Pollack, in preface to "Differential Topology"
Infinity is very easy, because you can divide by it and get zero. -- Eli Bohmer Lebow
Everything in physics that is true and beautiful reduces to a harmonic oscillator. -- Professor Andrew Lesniewski
A building is a simplicial complex Delta which can be expressed as the union of subcomplexes Sigma satisfying the following axioms... -- Page 76 in "Buildings" by Kenneth S. Brown
I am the empty set. Hear me roar. In propositional calculus too loud to ignore. -- Andy Dills
I'm not sure if I'm 100% wrong, but... -- Joe Harris
My mom sent me a care package full of random bits. -- Becky Weiss
Most complements are bigger than the sets themselves. -- Nils Barth
Most functors occuring in Nature are half-exact. -- Kamal Khuri-Makdisi
The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers. -- Bill Gates, in "The Road Ahead", page 265
Next on Oprah: Mathematicians who hate their notation! -- Eli Bohmer Lebow
"The next thing to do", murmured Horton, "let's see -- The next thing to do is to prove part (b)." -- Eli Bohmer Lebow, with apologies to Dr. Seuss
"I'm interested in studying some non-associative algebra." "You pervert! Why don't you, like, go study English?" -- Nate Ackerman and KenShan
"That way you're allowed to keep the moths, and the finches." "Even the finches?" -- Matt Caywood and Eli Bohmer Lebow
Disclaimer: Properties vary. Some theorems may not apply in your category. Consult local definitions for details. -- Eli Bohmer Lebow
WE REGRET TO INFORM YOU THAT GRAVITY FALLS OFF WITH THE INVERSE SQUARE OF DISTANCE. This public service announcement was brought to you by the American Physical Association. -- Eli Bohmer Lebow
Hence we have a handwaving-induced map...-- KenShan
Yo mama so transitive, she done commute with $P_\alpha$. -- KenShan and Eli Bohmer Lebow
Cute beats brute. Bright beats might. -- Wheeler Ruml
Sometimes it's not enough to know the meaning of things. Sometimes we need to know what they don't mean as well. -- Bob Dylan, in the movie "Masked and Anonymous"