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August 17 - August 23, 2024
“That’s what happens when you free people from the restraints of time. They make their own rigid schedule.”
One thing Yasuko had discovered during her time working as a hostess was that men who were good listeners and truly cared about other people’s problems generally came from happy homes.
“Which is harder: devising an unsolvable problem, or solving that problem?
Your assumptions are your worst enemies. Trust them too much, and you’ll fail to see what’s right under your nose.”
“I recall you posing a question to me before. You asked which was more difficult, formulating an unsolvable problem, or solving that problem. Remember?”
“I do. And I have an answer for you. It’s more difficult to create the problem than to solve it. All the person trying to solve the problem has to do is always respect the problem’s creator.”
The question of whether or not it’s as easy to determine the accuracy of another person’s results as it is ...
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“You’ve given me your answer,”
Basically, it asks whether it’s more difficult to think of the solution to a problem yourself or to ascertain if someone else’s answer to the same problem is correct.”
Besides, how many people are there who would willingly take the blame for something like murder?
told him there was no such thing in this world as a useless cog, and that even a cog may decide how it is to be used.”
Confinement was like a limitless garden of paradise for him. How short is a lifetime, he thought, compared to the time it will take humankind to find all the rich veins of mathematical ore where they lie sleeping and tease them forth into the world.
He held no aspirations of ever being anything to them. He knew he should never even attempt to make contact. It was like his relationship with mathematics: it was enough merely to be associated with something so sublime. To seek any kind of acknowledgment would sully its dignity.