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1 " You're the right colour for the Angel of Death, Mister Cale. But a little short.' 'I could cut your head off and stand on it. Then I'd be taller. "
― Paul Hoffman
2 " Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it as it is to its victims - the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is that nobody really possesses a great kind of power for long. Those who have it on loan from Fate count on it too much and are themselves destroyed. "
3 " Mathematician need only peace of mind and occasionally, paper and pencil. "
― Paul Hoffman , The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdős and the Search for Mathematical Truth
4 " La soledad es algo maravilloso (...), por dos motivos: primero porque le permite a un hombre estar consigo mismo; y segundo porque se libra de estar con los demás. "
5 " Think of how strange the colours and sights of the world would be for a blind man abruptly made to see or a man deaf from birth hearing the playing of a hundred flutes "
6 " Ser sociable es muy arriesgado, incluso fatal, porque supone estar en contacto con personas, la mayor parte de las cuales son aburridas, perversas o ignorantes, y sólo lo buscan a uno porque no soportan su propia compañía. La mayor parte se aburren a sí mismos y reciben a los demás no como a verdaderos amigos, sino como una distracción... "
7 " Cuanto más viejo me hago más propenso a creer que si el amor ha de juzgarse por sus efectos visibles, se parece más al odio que a la amistad. "
8 " Revenge is the best revenge. "
9 " Intelligence has many shades, but rage is the same colour everywhere. Humiliation tastes the same to everyone. "
10 " Only inferior minds speak or write in order to discover what they think. "
11 " Como muchos hombres inteligentes, cree que los demás son idiotas. "
12 " When he said someone had 'died", Erdős meant that that the person had stopped doing mathematics. When he said someone had "left", the person had died. "
13 " In stories of the good and bad it's only the good who are subject to dreadful luck, mischance and blundering. The bad are always sharp and act with discipline, have cunning plans only just thwarted in the nick of time. The evil are always on the cusp of winning ways. "
14 " Don't think of it as a lie, think of it as the truth under imaginary circumstances. "
15 " The mere adding of years to life is not living. "
16 " non numerantur sed ponderantur (They are not counted but weighed) "
17 " ...la solución a todo problema es siempre otro problema. "
18 " ... los hombres importantes tienen responsabilidades importantes, y la de no mantener su palabra es una de ellas. "
19 " Cuando uno les demuestra a los demás que están equivocados, los demás lo odian a uno por ello. "
20 " La fuerza es tan despiadada con quien la posee como con quien la sufre: a este lo aplasta, al primero lo envenena. "
