I think the killers get far too much attention.
If someone decides to be a musician now, it means because there is no hope of money at the end of it, it means they really want to be a musician. And if someone is writing now, there is no hope for money at the end of it.
We decided that the French could never write user-friendly software because they're so rude.
We went from being boring little Canada to a sexy country of sin overnight? We are not used to being trendy or hip.
You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you fear you are an interchangeable cog.
You wait for fate to bring about the changes in life which you should be bringing about by yourself.
Your ability to rationalize your own bad deeds makes you believe that the whole world is as amoral as you are.
For scholars and laymen alike it is not philosophy but active experience in mathematics itself that can alone answer the question: What is mathematics?
Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its basic elements are logic and intuition, analysis and construction, generality and individuality.