Stepan Kuzmin

“We asked Shoup if his research allows him to optimize his own commute, through the Los Angeles traffic to his office at UCLA. Does arguably the world’s top expert on parking have some kind of secret weapon? He does: “I ride my bike.”
― Brian Christian, Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions

“It sees post-rock as an archipelago: islands that may speak different languages and are probably only on nodding terms with one another. But they are in the same sea. And that sea, the one ideological core that unites the major artists covered in this book, is deconstruction: a fierce desire to unpick and change predictable channels of expression.”
― Jeanette Leech, Fearless: The Making Of Post-Rock

“Mathematics is the study of anything that obeys the rules of logic, using the rules of logic.”
― Eugenia Cheng, How to Bake Pi: An Edible Exploration of the Mathematics of Mathematics

“To be human was to continually dumb the world down into an understandable story that keeps things simple.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library