Pavan

“If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.”
― E.M. Forster, What I Believe and Other Essays

“I believe, as many say they believe, that everyone has the right to run his own life—to go to hell in his own fashion.”
― David D. Friedman, The Machinery of Freedom: Guide to a Radical Capitalism

“We live in a complicated and interdependent society; each of us is constantly affected by events thousands of miles away occurring to people he has never heard of. How, in such a society, can we meaningfully talk about each person being free to go his own way? The answer to this question lies in the concept of property rights.”
― David D. Friedman, The Machinery of Freedom: Guide to a Radical Capitalism

“Of course, topologists don’t care about any of this “applied math” nonsense. They’re just trying to find all the shapes.”
― Milo Beckman, Math Without Numbers