G. H. Hardy Quotations

I was at my best at a little past forty, when I was a professor at Oxford.

It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.

Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.

Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not. "Immortality" may be a silly word, but probably a mathematician has the best chance of whatever it may mean.

I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art.

A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.

A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.

There is no scorn more profound, or on the whole more justifiable, than that of the men who make for the men who explain.

Pure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied. For what is useful above all is technique, and mathematical technique is taught mainly through pure mathematics.

I wrote a great deal... but very little of any importance; there are not more than four of five papers which I can still remember with some satisfaction.

Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.

The people who come to us are desperate. It's as if they're in a burning building. Their lives are at stake.... We didn't feel that we could morally back out and put these people back in the fire and let them die.

We are praying we don't have an earthquake, ... This is money we've committed to sewer, street and other projects to meet the future needs of our city.

There is no question that philosophically he is pro-life, he is a very religious individual. But I think in his stint as a governor and attorney general of Missouri, he was fair and balanced and a person who applied the law fairly.

There is no one that's going to help us but us.

We're just so happy to see this project moving forward.

We knew they were big, but we felt we were more athletic. They did everything I could have asked for.

Versatile was able to achieve revenue growth during that period by concentrating on our core goal of providing mobile solutions that operate in a wired or wireless environment, ... This was especially meaningful as the last few years in the technology sector have been particularly difficult. Our growth is a testament to the commitment of our employees in pursuit of our vision.

We're right in the heart of the music business.

We desperately need to let the world know we're alive and that we're open for business. We hope people see the devastation when they come, to better understand what we've been through.

We really felt like it was a chance to start the 12-year cycle of producing a new series each year for the baby.

The real challenge that they're trying to solve, and we're trying to solve, is how to spread the costs as fairly as possible.

There ain't no way that they're 17 points better than us. We took the game from ourselves. We probably gave them 35 points today.

We had been selling propeller hats as a way for students to show their support for wind power. Many of the school's administrators even bought hats for friends and family, giving us a chance to talk to them about our efforts.

Many who have experienced homelessness for a long time become numb. They feel they are separated from society, and lack the human touch. They don't get their hands shook, they don't get hugs, they are detached from society and it is not a positive world.

She did a good job. If we were there it may have worried her a little bit.

Since last August the University of Illinois has taken a deliberative, measured approach to the NCAA policy, and that would appear to be what the NCAA is doing in this case. It's good that rather than try to rush to a decision shortly before the policy goes into affect, the NCAA says it is going to give some deliberative review to these appeals.

Now the tobacco grower has more to tend to. I got more business looking at some of their secondary crops. So my success here does come indirectly from the growth of contract farming.

On our network, we can provide much faster data speed than you can provide on the Telstra network. The proposition we're announcing puts us right into the heartland of broadband growth and customer needs in the Australian marketplace.

I was surprised. Poppy was already cleaning him.

I wouldn't trade all those years of coaching for anything. We spent a lot of time with the kids and adults putting the programs together, and it was all worth it.

Catch after catch, I just try to do my job.

Basically, it's been wars that have stopped Mardi Gras.

I fought for them for 3 or 4 years. I fought for them, but they wouldn't fight for their own self.

For those of us who live here, it's group therapy.

I always thought we would have Mardi Gras if we had a city.

He is making every effort to recover progress.

There is no budget shortfall per se. We were challenged in putting together the budget year because of the loss of federal funding.

We just have to get our timing down right and get the chemistry going. It carried over from the fall, that if we run our routes exactly the way he thinks we're going to run them, then he'll put the ball right there.

We're not willing to schedule more negotiating sessions.

What we've had in the past is probably hypocritical. We've had a lot of creative financing that's made it difficult to assess really who's giving what, when and how.

He's definitely happy he's doing the job he was elected to do and (to) continue to serve the people of Wyoming.

We made progress from one year to the next after going 3-16 last season. We have to continue to build on it. Our jayvee team went 18-1, so the foundation is set.

He was absolutely delighted. Everyone there loved it.

He didn't fall down on purpose. I made him fall down.

He just kind of sits there, and he sleeps a lot. Poppy is being really good with him.

He just bullied his way through and got to the right people.

I thought we played well in the second half, but Bassett played outstanding in the first half and throughout the whole game. My hat's off to them (Bassett). They're a great ball club.

Land banking is a centuries-old practice. In any market where folks smell escalation, they are going to land bank.

I was court-martial in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

I think we'll have to see where the board of trustees wants to go.

I think we all really enjoyed both the dynamic personalities and active debate during the panel.

It is kind of nice not to rush around after school to get to a meet. I still plan to be part of the ski community but I don't have to hurry around after school to get there.

It is important to study our basic framework. It's not some dust-covered relic, it's a guide book to how we live our lives.

Later, we found out he was the man that died. They were giving him CPR on the landing.

I will never see the turkeys run up and down the road again. I will never see my deer feed in my yard again. ... I will never be able to freely do what I wanted to do.

Last year, he was coming in, and he really didn't know anybody. He was still learning names and their positions. This year, he knows what he wants. Either you're going to be able to do the job or you're not.

Over the years we have looked at any number of sites. We went so far as to put in an offer to purchase on it. When you get that far, you stop looking at other alternatives.

Right now the demand is far exceeding the supply of available physicians and hospital facilities.

Part of the therapy is convincing the patient they are not talking too loudly. That's how it feels at first.

That didn't have anything to do with it. You can't have a great game every game. He played his heart out. We had something to do with the struggles, too.

John's breakthrough was a new way of teaching. He boiled all his knowledge into a system, and it just made teaching so much more efficient. John could walk a line of students and basically know a person's whole shot pattern from where the ball went after one swing. And then he would convey the information so that person could basically fix himself.

It is easy for us as students to leave on the light when we exit a room, or let the computer stay on stand-by rather than hibernate without thinking of the environmental or even economic consequences of our actions.

It is easy for students to fall into the pattern of daily activities here. Whether it is the third floor of McCabe, Cornell basement or Hicks lounge, we spend an awful lot of time indoors, despite our beautiful campus.

It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in a language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.

I think this is as much symbolic as anything. But it's still important, and I understand why Sen. Byrd would push for this.

That's the way life is. It'll all be taken away from us in the end.

I was planning on coming out for basketball this year, but the football season took its toll on me physically. I needed to rest and rehabilitate some injuries. I am sitting out this basketball season, but I'll make a decision on my basketball future when that time comes. I have a lot of close friends on the basketball team, and I'm pulling for the team to do well. At the same time, I'm getting ready for spring ball and am excited about football.

Most of the applicants that we're getting into the agency to hire as public safety officers want to do one or the other -- either be a policemen or a fireman.

Williamson County is an extremely bright jewel in the health care environment. We're not naive enough to think that we're the only ones who are going to have an impact on health care.

We were lucky. Five more minutes and there would have been a lot of people killed or hurt really bad.

We were (24-4) last year, and people didn't expect us to be as good. But it is a credit to the six seniors in there who fought so hard.

We need to stay up. We're not ready to go home yet.

We need it for our psyche. It's like group therapy. We've likened this to a jazz funeral, we mourn on the way there, and rejoice on the way back. We've got to start rejoicing!

The pilot project will provide for the coordination of the lead and cooperating agencies through the permit process. This will provide better coordination and improved use of resources for both the Rawlins and Buffalo offices and the related agencies...

The fact that we're attempting to do this at all is, I think, history-making. We call ourselves the Big Easy, but we never seem to take the easy way out.

We owe it to our ancestors and our children to keep this celebration going. We just can't stop. This is so important for us,

This year we looked at our funds and we didn't need as much as we took in last year with the tax rate. We didn't need that same tax rate, so we reduced it a penny, which is a little bit below what the effective tax rate was. That's the way we always do our budgets.

We have seen, in just the brief time we have been doing this, positive results in people's lives.

What kind of new life have I got? I can't even replace it.

We've got to be able to move the ball, run the ball and throw it. I think they felt that they could stop the run, so they just wanted to focus on stopping the pass.

We've been as patient as we could, but the district has not given any indication that they are willing to settle this.

We've never had this kind of coverage. It's a real opportunity for the rest of the city to show itself.

We've got a lot of seniors. In a tough ballgame like this, you want your most experienced players out there in the fourth quarter.

We will be trying to chase down leads or find any evidence that we can find.

This was very much a low blow. Scab labor in the labor community is not something people take very lightly.

We cannot afford not to have Mardi Gras. That message would be -- New Orleans is closed for business.

This year's baby dragons will have cups, spoons and bracelets and necklaces.

What concerns the record industry is that with the move to digital delivery, consumer behavior changes to where people believe any and all music should be available for free.

We tend to compliment what other medical facilities, what other physicians, and what other hospital companies do in our community.

We teach our guys it's all about character and class and we showed a lot of both.

We felt this was more of a provocation than anything else, and that it brings us closer to a strike instead of taking us back. Some people felt this was a tit-for-tat from our strike vote, but the strike vote was an expression of the frustration we felt for two years. It was a last resort, not an opening salvo.

We saw other people going crazy. It was really scary, and we saw the smoke down the hallway.

We think some folks actually left the pharmacy without their drugs, and we just can't have that happen to our citizens.

Both coaches said afterwards that they were surprised that they hadn't been picked up already. I'm a little disappointed with that too, but the schools they're visiting are top-notch and both will do well at whatever school they decide.

Believe me, we have considered just about everything else. What we are hoping is that there are other sites that wouldn't otherwise have been brought to our attention or would be available.

Board members have indicated their intention to take the appeal process to the next level.

Content created for TV or films won't fly in broadband.

Country music, in particular, is a powerful and unifying force that inspires individuals to action and initiates the process of healing in times of personal tragedy, or national crisis.

Ethelberta breathed a sort of exclamation, not right out, but stealthily, like a parson's damn.