Source: Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories
“Reeling and Writhing of course, to begin with,' the Mock Turtle replied, 'and the different branches of arithmetic-ambition, distraction, uglification, and derision.”
Source: Alice In Wonderland: Including Alice's Adventures In Wonderland And Through The Looking Glass
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Dr. Seuss
(1904–1991) American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of Beginner Books
Yertle the Turtle (1958)
“… When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occassional cheese dip.”
Source: A Confederacy of Dunces
John Von Neumann
(1903–1957) Hungarian-American mathematician and polymath
On mistaking pseudorandom number generators for being truly "random" — this quote is often erroneously interpreted to mean that von Neumann was against the use of pseudorandom numbers, when in reality he was cautioning about misunderstanding their true nature while advocating their use. From "Various techniques used in connection with random digits" by John von Neumann in Monte Carlo Method (1951) edited by A.S. Householder, G.E. Forsythe, and H.H. Germond <!-- National Bureau of Standards Applied Mathematics Series, 12 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1951): 36-38. -->
Context: Any one who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin. For, as has been pointed out several times, there is no such thing as a random number — there are only methods to produce random numbers, and a strict arithmetic procedure of course is not such a method.
Thomas Gray
(1716–1771) English poet, historian
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Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=elcc (written 1750, publ. 1751)
Glen Cook
(1944) American fiction writer
Source: Lord of the Silent Kingdom (2007), Chapter 20 (pp. 518)
Source: The Interpretation of Cultures (1973), p. 28-29
Martin Luther
(1483–1546) seminal figure in Protestant Reformation
To His Housewife (An Seine Hausfrau), end of July 1545, De Wette, vol. v (Fünfter Theil, 1828), p. 753. No. MMCCLXXXVI http://books.google.com/books?vid=0SgD2vFniuUDWUSHsu8FSM5&id=Ez96yjkxWYoC&pg=PA752&dq=Dr.+Martin+Luthers+Briefe,+Sendschreiben McGiffert, p. 374 (English tr.).
McGiffert, Arthur Cushman. Martin Luther: The Man and His Work http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC01594761&id=ySbbvfFlGLMC&pg=PP15&lpg=PA1&dq=%22Arthur+Cushman+McGiffert+%22 (Century, 1911), from Google Books. Reprint from Kessinger Publishing (July 2003), ISBN 076617431X