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"Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not."
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"Don't disregard your so-called "stupid ideas." They may be inspired thoughts and high-potential opportunities. Whatcha gonna do?"

"Filmgoers are starved for new ideas, voices and visions."

"I think he's informing himself, reaching out and getting ideas and information and advice. I haven't the slightest doubt that internally taking shape in that marvelous brain of his is a philosophy of foreign affairs. But it would be premature to say that one is fully formed."

"I'm supposed to be the director of a television company, but I've only ever seen that company as a vehicle for making the kind of programmes we wanted to make, getting our ideas on the screen."

"I have always watched the rushes, and have learned more because I have done so, because you can have all manner of ideas in your head, but they have to end up on the screen."

"I don't come in with any preconceived ideas, and although I will have done some preparation, I can go which way the director wants."

"I can get away with saying a lot of ideas that are young and naive. I'm liberated."
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"Pure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied. For what is useful above all is technique, and mathematical technique is taught mainly through pure mathematics."

"There is no scorn more profound, or on the whole more justifiable, than that of the men who make for the men who explain. Exposition, criticism, appreciation, is work for second-rate minds."

"A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas."

"It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that."

"Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not."
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