“Nothing need happen in the poem because the poem is to be itself the happening.”

“But Michelangelo could verbalize his ideas and put them on record for all time, while (for many reasons) the Chartres master may have been incapable of explaining them, even to his workmates.”

“Every actor in the American economy is best understood by its position in the country’s wager on artificial intelligence.“

“… a mortgage bundles credit exposure, an interest-rate position, a borrower-held prepayment option, and a servicing business.“

When godlike art has, with superior thought, The limbs and motions in idea conceived, A simple form in humble clay achieved Is the first offering into being brought.

"Founding a business is fundamentally an assertion of contrarian truth about the world, that there is some opportunity that you can take advantage of that everyone else has missed."

“ROM is currently the only museum in the world to have multiple worlds curated into the Minecraft Education in-game library, filled with custom-built blocks, characters, and museum objects to bring museum learning to interactive and engaging life.“

“This was a big meeting to discuss ‘the future’, which is the time that you and l are living in now.”

“… Ailton Krenak’s book Ideas to Postpone the End of the World (2019), in which the Brazilian Indigenous philosopher and environmental activist suggests using creativity and dreaming to create ‘colourful parachutes’ that might slow our fall.“

“In addition to cosmic divine embodiment, Rāmānuja also advocates personal divine embodiment. In other words, Rāmānuja proposes that God possesses a divine form (divyarūpa)—a sensible, humanlike, embodied expression of divinity that is unconditionally ultimate.”

“… the soul-body analogy allows us to sense God within the universe, while also acknowledging that God exceeds the universe. The concept articulates our experience of God as both immanent and transcendent.“

“[Warsh’s] hesitancy to provide more insight into his thinking has created an uncertainty premium that affects the financing of everything from home mortgages to emerging market sovereign debt.“

“McLean [father of the shipping container] died in 2001, the year that China joined the World Trade Organization.”

"Pursuing Stacks (French: À la Poursuite des Champs) is an influential 1983 mathematical manuscript by Alexander Grothendieck. It consists of a 12-page letter to Daniel Quillen followed by about 600 pages of research notes."

"By using plurals, you don’t need to assume a 'set' exists over and above the individuals themselves. If you have five critics, you just have five critics—you do not have a sixth, abstract object called 'the set of those five critics.'"

"... by ‘circle’ we mean a curve homeomorphic to a circle."

"The geometry of algebraic topology is so pretty, it would seema pity to slight it and to miss all the intuition it provides."

"Patterns therefore arise from the contrast, the imperfection against the perfection, such as clouds against the blue sky, ripples on a fish pond, Chinese paper cutting, and the blot of ink on a paper."

"... the human mind perceives too much symmetry as a bland uniformity rather than a striking pattern. ... a uniform, featureless plane has a vast amount of symmetry; but people do not look at a wall painted in a single color and enthuse over its wonderful patterns."

“Yet symmetry breaking does not mean a total loss of symmetry, only a partial loss. Before the milk drop hits the surface of a bowl it is invariant under all rotations; when hitting the surface, the milk drop breaks into a crown, which is invariant to only some rotations.”

"In the period 1991–2015, algorithmic advances in Mixed Integer Optimization (MIO) coupled with hardware improvements have resulted in an astonishing 450 billion factor speedup in solving MIO problems."