A couple is a conspiracy in search of a crime. Sex is often the closest they can get.

The Dude abides. I don’t know about you, but I take comfort in that. It’s good knowing he’s out there, the Dude, takin’ her easy for all us sinners.

We could argue that if we are pricing a complex product that is highly model dependent then the exact definition of the independent variable will be relatively unimportant compared with the choice of model.

Reductio ad absurdum, which Euclid loved so much, is one of a mathematicians finest weapons. It is a far finer gambit than any chess play: a chess player may offer the sacrifice of a pawn or even a piece, but a mathematician offers the game.

Summum ius, summa iniuria.