Notneimanmarcus - Seriously Though. It Isn't.

as seen here in katherines and paper towns, you are very opinionated on subdivisions. what are your feelings about them and why?

I really hated subdivisions as a teenager because to me they represented sameness and the bloated, intellectually disengaged, wretchedly average 21st century America.

I felt like all these identical houses were architectural crimes committed against the land, and like we would pay for our crimes with these stretched out, sprawling cities that human beings of the future would see as proof of the insanity that accompanied our national prosperity.

Now I live in that very suburbia. So….yeah.

In the creative mathematics, the role of proof is in no way restricted to its function of carrier of conviction. Otherwise, there would be no need for Carl Friedrich Gauss to consider eight (!) different proofs of the law of quadratic reciprocity. One metaphor of proof is a route, which might be a desert track boring and unimpressive until one finally reaches the oasis of ones destination, or a foot path in green hills, exciting and energizing, opening great vistas of unexplored lands and seductive offshoots, leading far away even after the initial destination point has been reached.

Yuri Manin, Foundations as Superstructure (Reflections of a practicing mathematician)

my teacher could give me a year to do an assignment and ill still end up doing it the night before

Skógafoss

ellis-samizdat.tumblr.com (by Andrew ‘Samizdat’ Ellis)

I’ve always assumed that history is fully as speculative a discipline as writing science fiction. Our narrative of history changes as we go along, and hundred years from now, the deep past—assuming that technology continues to emerge at the same rate—the deep human past that those people will be able to see will be quite unrecognizable to us.

William Gibson [x] (via edwardspoonhands)

Somebody should have told me this two years ago when I could have saved myself.

Tips for Having an Enjoyable 10th Grade Year

Don’t take all PreAP classes.  

I know you think you can.  

BUT YOU CAN’T

DONT FUCKING DO IT

I SWEAR