People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.
-- Samuel Butler AA

An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living.
-- Nicholas Chamfort AA

We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are.
-- Anais Nin AA

In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
-- Johann von Neumann AA