A man whose mind has gone astray should study mathematics.

The purpose of computation is insight, not numbers.

Een bio-industrieboer met een miljoen kippen die hij van vroeg tot laat mishandelt, treitert, seksueel uitbuit en van hun voortplantingsproducten berooft, of een varkensboer die jonge varkentjes zonder verdoving van hun balletjes berooft, krijgt subsidie van de Rabobank. Maar wie met één zo’n kip neukt, ziet men het liefst gevierendeeld.

Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper.

The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed, the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back.