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Gerard Debreu Quotes

The Cowles Commission was the optimal environment for the type of research that I wanted to do.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: mathematician
Nationality: french
Birth: July 4, 1921 - December 31, 2004

Topics

Research Environment Wanted Type

This is an exciting time. I believe we stand at the edge of a new age - a Golden Age - of freedom that will rival any of the great eras of world history because it will be the entire world itself that is changing.

Age Freedom History Great Time Edge

At this very moment I'm behind on a compilation that Slave Labor is doing for Free Comic Book Day.

Moment Day Book Free Doing Labor

There is never enough gold to redeem all the currency in circulation.

John Buchanan Robinson

Gold Enough Never Currency Redeem

If we learn not humility, we learn nothing.

Humility Learn Nothing

I can list on one hand the famous science fiction writers I never met.

Robert Silverberg

Science Famous I Can Hand Never Met

The Pulitzer isn't a physical object. You can't hold it in your hand. You get some money ($7,500 in my day), and you get a little Tiffany's paperweight with your name on it and the image of Joseph Pulitzer suspended in the crystal. When people see my 'Pulitzer' (I keep it in my sock drawer), they are pretty amazed at its meagerness.

Jeffrey Eugenides

Money Day People Name You Hand

I wouldn't change a single thing, because one change alters every moment that follows it.

Change Moment Single Because Every

Before computers, telephone lines and television connect us, we all share the same air, the same oceans, the same mountains and rivers. We are all equally responsible for protecting them.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Mountains Computers Television Air

I have a whole fur closet. I'm not afraid of PETA.

Afraid Fur Whole Closet

All our talents increase in the using, and every faculty, both good and bad, strengthens by exercise: therefore, if you choose to use the bad, or those which tend to evil till they become your masters, and neglect the good till they dwindle away, you have only yourself to blame.

Good Yourself Evil Blame You Choose

God is the tangential point between zero and infinity.

God Point Infinity Zero Between

The world is not going into concentric blocs of power. It is actually going into a diffusion of power with more centres of decision-making than ever in human civilisation. That requires you to place yourself in far more hubs of power than ever before.

Power Yourself World You Place More

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