“In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.”
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) American journalist
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Love
“In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.”
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) American journalist
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Love
“Minus times minus equals plus,
The reason for this we need not discuss.”
W. H. Auden (1907–1973) Anglo-American poet
As stated in "The Poet Himself" http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F01E6D81539F937A35753C1A967948260 by Paul Fussell, in The New York Times (4 October 1981), these lines were a "math mnemonic" which Auden "had to memorize as a child." <br class="br">Misattributed
“With me: one minus one = one; with you: it’s zero. Here lies the only difference.”
Dejan Stojanovic (1959) poet, writer, and businessman
"Mathematics," p. 29
The Shape (2000), Sequence: “Happiness of Atoms”
Willem de Sitter (1872–1934) Dutch cosmologist
Kosmos (1932), Above is Beginning Quote of the Last Chapter: Relativity and Modern Theories of the Universe -->
Emma Goldman (1868–1940) anarchist known for her political activism, writing, and speeches
p. 219 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2162/2162-h/2162-h.htm#emancipation <br class="br">The Tragedy of Woman's Emancipation (1906)
Phil Hartman (1948–1998) Canadian American actor, comedian, screenwriter, and graphic artist
On the Simpsons, Troy McClure
Garrett Hardin (1915–2003) American ecologist
Tragedy of the Commons, 1968.
Tragedy of the Commons (1968)