Gary Lang

“Thinking about the Danish modern expandable was making Kate tense”
― Cyra McFadden, The Serial

“The other reason mathematicians were blind to chaos was that they had no computers, and were left with the kind of vague description that Poincaré gave, which other mathematicians failed to understand.”
― Dana Mackenzie, The Universe in Zero Words: The Story of Mathematics as Told through Equations

“Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“He then, stunningly, turned the conversation to the coming US presidential election, alluding to China’s economic capability to affect the ongoing campaigns, pleading with Xi to ensure he’d win. He stressed the importance of farmers, and increased Chinese purchases of soybeans and wheat in the electoral outcome. I would print Trump’s exact words, but the government’s prepublication review process has decided otherwise.”
― John R. Bolton, The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir