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# Leonard Mandel

Leonard Mandel (May 9, 1927 – February 9, 2001) was an American physicist that contributed to the development of theoretical and experimental modern optics and is widely considered one of the founding fathers of the field of quantum optics. With Emil Wolf he published the highly regarded book Optical Coherence and Quantum Optics. He was the Lee DuBridge Professor Emeritus of Physics and Optics at the University of Rochester.

## Quotes

* Concepts like these can seem remote, until you explain with analogies taken from everyday life. But unfortunately some ideas do not lend themselves to familiar analogies.
** while explaining crystal structure to college students, as quoted in Ping-Pong makes physics come alive, The Deseret News (March 19, 1989)
* We are trying to understand the implications of quantum mechanics. The subject is very old, but we are still learning.
** as quoted by John Hogan, in Quantum Philosophy, Scientific American (July 1992)
* It's kind of interesting to show that the strange features of quantum mechanics are actually observed. We still don't totally understand what it means.
** as quoted by James Glanz, in Leonard Mandel, 73, Revealer Of Light's Weirdness, Is Dead, New York Times (Tuesday, February 13, 2001)
# Leonard Mosley

Leonard Oswald Mosley OBE OStJ (11 February 1913 – June 1992) was a British journalist, historian, biographer and novelist. His works include five novels and biographies of General George Marshall, Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring, Orde Wingate, Walt Disney, Charles Lindbergh, the Du Pont family, Eleanor Dulles, Allen Welsh Dulles, John Foster Dulles and Darryl F. Zanuck. He also worked as chief war correspondent for The Sunday Times of London.

## Quotes

* There were 600,000 dead, 14,000,000 driven from their homes 100,000 young girls kidnapped by both sides, forcibly converted or sold on the auction block ... One convoy of Sikhs and Hindus from West Punjab was 74 miles long, and raiders (Muslim mobs) who attack it constantly en route did not need to watch for it: they could smell its coming, for it was riddled with cholera and other foul diseases ... there took place murder, looting, burning and raping such as the world had not seen since the days of Chengiz Khan.
** The Last Days of the British Raj, as quoted in Kamra A. J. (2000). The prolonged partition and its pogroms : testimonies on violence against Hindus in East Bengal 1946-64. p. 20
# Leonard Jimmie Savage

Leonard Jimmie Savage (born Leonard Ogashevitz; 20 November 1917 – 1 November 1971) was an American mathematician and statistician.

## Quotes

* My dissertation for the Ph.D. degree at the University of Michigan was on applications of vectorial methods to metric geometry (in the sense of the Menger school), especially with a view to the merging of metric geometry in that sense with differential geometry. Professor S B Myers at the University of Michigan sponsored my dissertation, but I was particularly close to R L Wilder there.
** Leonard Jimmie Savage, cited in: W.A. Wallis, "Leonard Jimmie Savage 1917-1971," in E Shils (ed.), Remembering the University of Chicago: teachers, scientists, and scholars. (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1991), 436-451; Quoted in: J J O'Connor and E F Robertson, "Leonard Jimmie Savage," at history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk, November 2010.
* For a person who wants to do original, realistic, and critical work in statistics there is no atmosphere anywhere in the world today to compare with this Department.
** Leonard Jimmie Savage, (1960) cited in: W.A. Wallis, "Leonard Jimmie Savage 1917-1971," in E Shils (ed.), Remembering the University of Chicago: teachers, scientists, and scholars. (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1991), 436-451; Quoted in: J J O'Connor and E F Robertson (2010).
** Letter to Chicago Department before taking up a professorship at the University of Michigan.
* [The George E. P. Box paper Fitting empirical data (1960) is] a mature exposition of an important branch of statistics, to which the author has made great contributions. One feature of particular interest is practical discussion of genuinely nonlinear fitting problems and their solution with the help of tact and a special, publicly available, IBM-704 program. Another is insightful comments on the role of prior distributions in statistics.
** Leonard Jimmie Savage in 1960s; cited in: JOC/EFR (2006) "George Edward Pelham Box" at history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk, Nov 2006.

## Quotes about Leonard Jimmie Savage

* [Leonard Jimmie Savage is] one of the few people I have met whom I would unhesitatingly call a genius.
** Milton Friedman, in: Friedman, Milton; Friedman, Rose (1998). Two Lucky People: Memoirs. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. p. 146.
* R. A. Fisher, J. Neyman, R. von Mises, W. Feller, and L. J. Savage denied vehemently that probability theory is an extension of logic, and accused Laplace and Jeffreys of committing metaphysical nonsense for thinking that it is.
** E. T. Jaynes; G. Larry Bretthorst (10 April 2003). Probability Theory: The Logic of Science. Cambridge University Press. p. 293. ISBN 978-0-521-59271-0.
* It was only when L. J. Savage arrived on the scene, and championed the work of Ramsey and de Finetti that the work of these two pioneers in subjective probability first received serious philosophical attention.
** S. L. Zabell (6 June 2005). Symmetry and Its Discontents: Essays on the History of Inductive Probability. Cambridge University Press. p. 134. ISBN 978-0-521-44470-5.
# Nicholas Hoult

Nicholas Caradoc Hoult (7 December 1989–) is an English actor.

## Quotes

* I think interviews can be fine, it's just there's this terrible fear of coming off wrongly or saying something that gets taken out of context. Because this could make up people's opinions of you.
** Nicholas Hoult: 'Can you not just say I was lighthearted and witty? (20 May 2011)
* It feels unsettling to be walking out and about, and have people look at you with a formed impression even before they get to know you. It’s a bit like being an animal in a zoo.
** NICHOLAS HOULT ON THE HARDEST ROLE OF HIS LIFE, FATHERHOOD (8 January 2019)
* It's always difficult playing real people, because people have a notion of what they should be or how they should be played.
** BWW Interview: Nicholas Hoult Talks Starring in TOLKIEN (April 26, 2019)
* there’s just something in my DNA, where I put on a wig and I just turn into these bizarre humans. I do weirdly find it quite fun, playing these offbeat, very disconnected people, who have no sense of the world around them.
** A Chat With Nicholas Hoult Of ‘The Great,’ Who’s Getting Really Good At Playing The Bad Guy (May 15, 2020)
* Obviously humans are kind of creatures of habit in a way, and you pick up, even if you’re kind of hanging around a group of people, you kind of start to mimic them or speak like them and end up becoming more similar. So it’s safe to assume that at times, if you’re hanging around on a set where everyone’s talking in this rhythm, or you using that to kind of dialogue a lot, it’s safe to assume that at times it might slightly infiltrate the real world as well. Not negatively hopefully, but it’s kind of one of those things whereby I think hopefully the thing that you take is kind of the knowledge of just what it was like working with those people, the directors, the cast, and playing that character and what it felt like and you’re kind of always learning on this job.
** Interview: Nicholas Hoult, the royally comic king of ‘The Great’ (July 8, 2020)
# Nicholas Hilliard

Nicholas Hilliard (c. 1547 – January 7 1619) was the first true english born painter of English miniatures .

## Sourced

* How then can the curious drawer watch, and as it were catch these lovely graces, witty smilings, and those stolen glances which suddenly like lightning pass, and another countenance taketh place, except to behold and very well note and conceit to like.
** A Treatise Concerning the Arte of Limning, eds. R K R Thornton and T G S Cain, (Manchester, 1981), p. 77.

## Misattributed

* A vacant mind invites dangerous inmates, as a deserted mansion tempts wandering outcasts to enter and take up their abode in its desolate apartments.
** George Stillman Hillard Six Months in Italy (1853), ch. 5.
# Paul Rée

Paul Ludwig Carl Heinrich Rée (21 November 1849 – 28 October 1901) was a German author and philosopher who was a friend of Friedrich Nietzsche.

## Quotes
### The Origin of the Moral Sensations (1877)

* The feeling of justice thus arises out of two errors, namely, because the punishments inflicted by authorities and educators appear as acts of retribution, and because people believe in the freedom of the will.
# Paul Saffo

Paul Saffo (born 1954) is an American technology forecaster, essayist, and Consulting Associate Professor at Stanford University.

## Quotes

* Back in the mid-1700s, Samuel Johnson observed that there were two kinds of knowledge: that which you know, and that which you know where to get. It was a moment when cheap and abundant print coupled with reliable postal networks triggered an information explosion that dramatically changed the way people thought. [...] Now the Internet is changing how we think again. Just as print took over the once-human task of knowing, cyberspace is assuming the task of knowing where to get what we seek. [...] Now we revel in search, but most of what we search for isn't worth seeking, as the top search lists on Google, Yahoo and Bing make clear. [...] The Internet has changed our thinking, but if it is to be a change for the better, we must add a third kind of knowledge to Johnson's list — the knowledge of what matters.
** "A Third Kind of Knowledge", in The Edge Annual Question—2010: How Is the Internet Changing the Way You Think?, January 2010
* The future belongs to neither the conduit or content players, but those who control the filtering, searching and sense-making tools we will rely on to navigate through the expanses of cyberspace.
** Wired Magazine: 3/1994 "It's the Context, Stupid."
# Paul Rudolph (architect)

Paul Marvin Rudolph (October 23, 1918 – August 8, 1997) was an American architect and the chair of Yale University's Department of Architecture for six years, known for his use of reinforced concrete and highly complex floor plans. His most famous work is the Yale Art and Architecture Building (A&A Building), a spatially-complex Brutalist concrete structure. He is one of the modernist architects considered an early practitioner of the Sarasota School of Architecture.

## Quotes

* In New Haven, in the 60s, I designed some housing using trailers. I had the acquiescence of Mayor Lee, a remarkable mayor indeed. The whole notion of making a project for about 150 people using trailers was difficult to persuade anybody to do. I suppose it was a mistake; it was eventually demolished. People hated it. First of all it leaked, which is a very good reason to hate something, but I think it was much more complicated than that. Psychologically, the good folk who inhabited these dwellings thought that they were beneath them. In other words, the deviation of the dwelling was not something to their liking. I thought, and I suppose the mayor thought, that trailers were perfectly good enough for them. But I should say, in defense of what we built, that it was a pocket court plan and that it provided a separate outside space for each family. There were two stories, with a core at the center. I am very tenacious about certain things, and in the long run it seems to me that with the correcting of mistakes one can make something much more successful.
** Paul Rudolph in “Rethinking Designs in the 60s,” Perspecta, 1998. Archives of The Paul Rudolph Institute for Modern Architecture
# Paul Rudnick

Paul Rudnick (born December 29, 1957) is an American playwright, novelist, screenwriter and essayist.

## Quotes

* 1. If I should remain in a persistent vegetative state for more than fifteen years, I would like someone to turn off the TV.
** "My Living Will," The New Yorker (25 April 2005)

### Addams Family Values (1993)

    Main article: Addams Family Values
* Wednesday (as Pocahontas): You have taken the land which is rightfully ours. Years from now, my people will be forced to live in mobile homes on reservations; your people will wear cardigans and drink highballs. We will sell our bracelets by the roadside; you will play golf and enjoy hot hors d'oeuvres. My people will have pain and degradation; your people will have stick-shifts. The gods of my tribe have spoken. They have said, "Do not trust the Pilgrims, especially Sarah Miller." Becky (as Sarah Miller): Gary, she's changing the words! Wednesday (as Pocahontas): And for all these reasons, I have decided to scalp you and burn your village to the ground.
** See also Rudnick (1993). Addams Family Values. Pocket Books. p. 75.

### I Shudder (2009)

* I believe in a benevolent God not because He created the Grand Canyon or Michelangelo, but because He gave us snacks.
** p. 51
* There was a cable-TV program that documented how Peeps are made, and it showed unlimited hordes of Peeps bouncing merrily down a conveyor belt, right toward the camera. I came.
** p. 106
* And so I continue in borderline poverty, save for my one indulgence, no, my single absolute necessity: I take cabs. Yes, on occasion, when I wish to see what people with unpleasant skin conditions are wearing, I do take the subway. I have never, I am proud to say, taken the bus, because people who take the bus have given up.
** p. 188
* Whenever I stumble over my own feet, or blurt out a thought that makes no sense at all, or leave the house wearing one pattern too many, I always think, It's okay, I'm from New Jersey. I love New Jersey, because it's not just an all-purpose punch line, but probably a handy legal defense, as in, “Yes, I shot my wife because I thought she was Bigfoot, but I'm from New Jersey.”
** p. 211
# Richard Blumenthal

Richard Blumenthal (born February 13, 1946) is an American lawyer and politician serving as the senior United States senator from Connecticut since 2011. He is a member of the Democratic Party.

## Quotes

* Soccer today faces huge challenges as the FIFA scandal unfolds. Hope Solo continuing to play goalie for Team USA, just months before she will appear in court to face domestic violence charges, raises troubling questions about the state of the game.
** Quoted in USA Today (June 2015)

## External links

* Senator Richard Blumenthal official U.S. Senate website
* Blumenthal for Senate campaign website
# Richard Cantillon

Richard Cantillon (1680s – May 1734) was an Irish-French economist and author of Essai sur la Nature du Commerce en Général (Essay on the Nature of Trade in General), a book considered by William Stanley Jevons to be the "cradle of political economy". Although little information exists on Cantillon's life, it is known that he became a successful banker and merchant at an early age. His success was largely derived from the political and business connections he made through his family and through an early employer, James Brydges. During the late 1710s and early 1720s, Cantillon speculated in, and later helped fund, John Law's Mississippi Company, from which he acquired great wealth. However, his success came at a cost to his debtors, who pursued him with lawsuits, criminal charges, and even murder plots until his death in 1734.

## Quotes about Richard Cantillon

* Cantillon has been a much neglected figure in economics. He is known primarily for his influence on Quesnay and the Physiocrats, and for developing the notion that money flows connect the different sectors of the economy. Yet the place of Cantillon in history is more important than this. His Essay can legitimately be regarded as the first real economic treatise. It envisioned the economy as an interrelated system, and explained how that system worked. For this reason, Cantillon probably deserves to be regarded as the first real economist.
** Steven Pressman, Fifty Major Economists (1999), "Richard Cantillon (1687?–1734?)"
# Richard Bryan

Richard Hudson Bryan (born July 16 1937) is an American attorney and politician who served as the 25th Governor of the U.S. state of Nevada from 1983–89, and as a United States Senator from Nevada from 1989 to 2001. He is a member of the Democratic Party.

## Quotes

* Being chairman of the Senate Ethics Committee is like jumping off a cliff. The thrill is very short.
** NPR broadcast 2 November 1993
# Richard Carew (antiquary)

Richard Carew (17 July 1555 – 6 November 1620) was a Cornish translator and antiquary.

## Quotes

* I sing the goodly armes, and that Chieftaine Who great Sepulchre of our Lord did free. Much with his hande, much wrought he with his braine; Much in that glorious conquest suffred hee: And hell in vaine hitselfe opposde, in vaine The mixed troopes Asian and Libick flee To armes, for Heaven him favour'd, and he drew To sacred ensignes his straid mates anew.
** Godfrey of Bulloigne, or the Recoverie of Hierusalem. An Heroicall poeme written in Italian by Seig. Torquato Tasso, and translated into English by R. C. [Richard Carew] Esquire: and now the first part containing five cantos imprinted in both languages, &c. (1594), opening stanza
** Compare Edward Fairfax's translation (1600): "The sacred armies, and the godly knight, / That the great sepulchre of Christ did free, / I sing;" altered by Atterbury thus: "I sing the war made in the Holy Land, / And the great Chief that Christ's great tomb did free."
* Now was it night, when in deepe rest enrol'd Are waves and windes, and mute the world doth show Weari'd the beasts, and those that bottome hold Of billow'd sea, and of moyst streames that flow, And who are lodged in cave, or pen'd in fold, And painted flyers in oblivion low, Under their secret horrours silenced, Stilled their cares, and their harts suppelled.
** Godfrey of Bulloigne, or the Recoverie of Hierusalem (1594), Canto II, stanza 96

## External links

* Encyclopedic article on Richard Carew (antiquary) on Wikipedia
# Problems in mathematics
## Problems

* FORTY + TEN + TEN = SIXTY
** http://lamonica.info/CAOSPuzzle/T.html
* SEND + MORE = MONEY
** Henry Dudeney, in Strand Magazine vol. 68 (July 1924), pp. 97 and 214.
* Perhaps no puzzle of the whole collection caused more jollity or was found more entertaining than that produced by the Host of the "Tabard," who accompanied the party all the way. He called the pilgrims together and spoke as follows: "My merry masters all, now that it be my turn to give your brains a twist, I will show ye a little piece of craft that will try your wits to their full bent. And yet methinks it is but a simple matter when the doing of it is made clear. Here be a cask of fine London ale, and in my hands do I hold two measures—one of five pints, and the other of three pints. Pray show how it is possible for me to put a true pint into each of the measures." Of course, no other vessel or article is to be used, and no marking of the measures is allowed. It is a knotty little problem and a fascinating one. A good many persons to-day will find it by no means an easy task. Yet it can be done.
** Henry Dudeney, The Centerbary Puzzles, 6.—The Host's Puzzle.
# Procrastination

Procrastination refers to the deferment of actions or tasks to a later time.

## Quotes

* I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.
** Douglas Adams,The Salmon of Doubt (2002)
* God has promised forgiveness to your repentance; but He has not promised to-morrow to your procrastination.
** Augustine of Hippo, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 486.
* The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.
** Jorge Luis Borges, "Funes El Memorioso"] (Funes the Memorious), in Ficciones (1944); also published in Labyrinths (1964)
* Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
** Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605-1615), Pt. I, Bk. IV, Ch. 2
* Faith in to-morrow instead of Christ, is Satan's nurse for man's perdition.
** George B. Cheever, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 486.
* Qui recte vivendi prorogat horam, Rusticus exspectat dum defluat amnis.
** He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.
** Horace, Epistles. Bk. i, epis. 2. l.
* If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.
** Thomas de Quincey,"Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts", in Blackwood's Magazine, November 1839
* procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday
** Don Marquis, archy and mehitabel (1927), "certain maxims of archy"
* Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement.
** Henry Miller, The Wisdom of the Heart (1947), "The Enormous Womb"
* Do you want to learn holiness with terrible struggles and sore affliction and the plague of much remaining evil? Then wait before you turn to God.
** Frederick William Robertson, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 486.
* "I will go today" is what a herdsman says; I will go tomorrow is what a shepherd-boy says. I will go is I will go, and the time passes.
** Sumerian proverb, Collection III at The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature, 3rd millennium BCE.
* Procrastination is the soul rebelling against entrapment.
** Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 8.
* Few understand that procrastination is our natural defense, letting things take care of themselves and exercise their antifragility.
** Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012) Ch. 7. Naive Intervention, p. 122.
* Procrastination is the thief of time.
** Edward Young, Night Thoughts (1742-1745), Night 1, Line 393
# Tax-loss harvesting

Tax-loss harvesting is a technique for "generating" capital losses. It occurs when an investor sells a security that has depreciated in value. CBS News describes tax loss harvesting specifically as "selling an investment at a loss with the intention of ultimately repurchasing the same investment after the IRS]'s 30 day window on Wash sales has expired." This allows investors to lower their tax amount with the use of investment losses. Tax loss harvesting can be done throughout the fiscal year, allowing investors to "offset capital gains with capital losses." If an investor has more capital losses than gains in a year, that year they can use up to $3,000 as a deduction to "offset ordinary income", with the remainder carrying over into future years if unused. Loss harvesting defers taxes, but doesn't eliminate them, and is essentially receiving a loan without interest from the federal government, assuming marginal tax rates are the same. If marginal rates are different, then there can be additional tax savings (e.g., deducting excess losses against a higher ordinary income rate in one year in exchange for additional long term capital gains tax at a lower rate in a later year) or even a tax penalty (e.g., deducting at a lower capital gains tax rate in several years in exchange for a much larger gain in one later year that puts one in a higher capital gains tax and Medicare investment income tax bracket.)

## Quotes

* Another factor to consider is your overall investment strategy. Tax-loss harvesting can be beneficial in the short term, but it should not be the driving factor behind your investment decisions. It’s important to make sure that you are making decisions based on your long-term goals and investment horizon.
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