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Immortality Quotes


"If 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to yourself: 'Dijkstra would not have liked this', well that would be enough immortality for me."


"Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway."


"If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality."


"The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever."


"All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine."


"It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences."


"That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material."
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