A Quote by Lipman Bers

Mathematics is a collection of cheap tricks and dirty jokes.

Lipman Bers

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Lipman Bers
American - Mathematician
May 22, 1914 - October 29, 1993

To many, mathematics is a collection of theorems. For me, mathematics is a collection of examples; a theorem is a statement about a collection of examples and the purpose of proving theorems is to classify and explain the examples.

John B. Conway

How I feel is cheap and used, dirty and humiliated. Dirty and tricked and thrown away.

Chuck Palahniuk

This is a wonderful book, unique and engaging. Diaconis and Graham manage to convey the awe and marvels of mathematics, and of magic tricks, especially those that depend fundamentally on mathematical ideas. They range over many delicious topics, giving us an enchanting personal view of the history and practice of magic, of mathematics, and of the fascinating connection between the two cultures. Magical Mathematics will have an utterly devoted readership.

Barry Mazur

Jazz is not a 'form' but a collection of tags and tricks.

Ernest Newman

I like publicity, but don't resort to cheap tricks.

Shriya Saran

I had some jokes that were dirty. And some of it is when I started making appearances on Conan and Letterman back in the late '90s, I think. You had to remove the curse words, or you couldn't do some of the more explicit jokes.

Jim Gaffigan

Mathematics is as much an aspect of culture as it is a collection of algorithms.

Carl Benjamin Boyer

Hell, I'm not saying I'm an angel, but when it came to dirty tricks I couldn't hold a candle to the Irish Mafia.

Jimmy Hoffa

I like to get my hands dirty. Talk is cheap.

Chen Guangbiao

When I think about political races, and certain consultants, the word that comes to mind is dirty. Dirty, dirty, DIRTY!

Angela Alioto

My best jokes are so cheap. All I do is say things sarcastically.

Adam Brody

I do not prize the word cheap. It is not a word of inspiration. It is the badge of poverty, the signal of distress. Cheap merchandise means cheap men and cheap men mean a cheap country.

William McKinley

Recollect your thoughts don't get caught up in the mix ,cause the media is full of dirty tricks.

Tupac Shakur

Don't be getting sloppy drunk and telling them dirty jokes.

Mr. T

Long before a thermonuclear war can come about, we have had to lay waste our own sanity. We begin with the children. It is imperative to catch them in time. Without the most thorough and rapid brainwashing their dirty minds would see through our dirty tricks. Children are not yet fools, but we shall turn them into imbeciles like ourselves, with high I.Q.s if possible.

R. D. Laing

Mystery is an inescapable ingredient of mathematics. Mathematics is full of unanswered questions, which far outnumber known theorems and results. It's the nature of mathematics to pose more problems than it can solve. Indeed, mathematics itself may be built on small islands of truth comprising the pieces of mathematics that can be validated by relatively short proofs. All else is speculation.

Ivars Peterson

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