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"We don't know what we're writing until it just comes out. We don't sit around crunching numbers."

"I am woman, hear me roar, in numbers too big to ignore, and I know too much to go back and pretend."

"The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers."

"It's - as opposed to tape where you have a magnetic tape that's excited by frequencies that you hit, digital was a process where musical sounds are transferred to numbers and stored as numbers."

"We find them smaller and fainter, in constantly increasing numbers, and we know that we are reaching into space, farther and farther, until, with the faintest nebulae that can be detected with the greatest telescopes, we arrive at the frontier of the known universe."

"It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded."

"Numbers are the product of counting. Quantities are the product of measurement. This means that numbers can conceivably be accurate because there is a discontinuity between each integer and the next."

"Until we respect bin Laden, we are going to die in numbers that are probably unnecessary."
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"When a writer becomes a reader of his or her own work, a lot can go wrong. It's like do-it-yourself dentistry."

"I think humor is a very serious thing. I use it as a way of weakening the reader's defenses so that I can more easily take him to something more."

"Words like feminism or democracy scare me. They are words with barnacles on them, and you can't see what's underneath."

"Prior to Wordsworth, humor was an essential part of poetry. I mean, they don't call them Shakespeare comedies for nothing."
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