But it is impossible to divide a cube into two cubes, or a fourth power into fourth powers, or generally any power beyond the square into like powers; of this I have found a remarkable demonstration. This margin is too narrow to contain it.
Quotes about cubes (16 Quotes)
On Ramanujan I remember once going to see him when he was lying ill at Putney. I had ridden in taxi cab number 1729 and remarked that the number seemed to me rather a dull one, and that I hoped it was not an unfavorable omen. 'No,' he replied, 'it is a very interesting number it is the smallest number expressible as the sum of two cubes in two different ways.'
The squares of the periodic times are to each other as the cubes of the mean distances.
He had his quirks. We never had water. There was no water on the sidelines during practice in Cheney, Washington. It would be 100 degrees in Cheney and we would be paying ball boys to get us some ice cubes. They used to wrap them in towels you used to dry your face and you'd be chewing on ice.
It totally gets us out of the box. We're sitting in our cubes trying to do work, working on computers, pumping out proposals and now we're sitting in a bumper car approaching our co-workers at 12 miles an hour ramming them and hoping the ball falls out of their little stick. It's totally different but it's a really good time.
I like to torture my plants by watering them with ice cubes.
In the margin of his copy of Diophantus' Arithmetica, Fermat wrote To divide a cube into two other cubes, a fourth power or in general any power whatever into two powers of the same denomination above the second is impossible, and I have assuredly found an admirable proof of this, but the margin is too narrow to contain it.
Like after a nice walk when you have seen many lovely sights you decide to go home, after a while I decided it was time to go home, let us put the cubes back in order. And it was at that moment that I came face to face with the Big Challenge: What is the way home?
I am obsessed with ice cubes. Obsessed.
Mark You haven't got any beetroot cubes, have you Any mini-gherkins, stuffed olivesBridget No, Pam, and besides, I'm busy. The gravy needs sieving.Mark Surely not, just stir it, Una.
I'll tell you something. If anyone has had a LAN game with an RTS in an office of fifteen to twenty, or eight or even just two people shouting over cubes at each other, it's a hugely different experience than playing alone. Being able to do that with anyone in the world That's phenomenal. If that's the only thing we brought to the product, that would be great, but it's only the tip of the iceberg. The Xbox Live features, like 'king of the hill' and 'capture the flag,' are very well understood among players, and now they can do that in a strategy context, rather than as a first-person shooter.
Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes.
I used to jog but the ice cubes kept falling out of my glass.
I remember listening to Cube's music when I was like 14 years old, my friends listening to it up in Toronto.
At first I only used the Scotch to flavor the seltzer. Then I left out the seltzer altogether and only retained the ice cubes with the Scotch. Today, I am proud to say, I have emancipated myself from all such crutches. I drink my Scotch straight.
He's the type of guy that can flip the switch probably better than anybody. He can be in here warming up with the guys and jackin' around and then he goes out there and crosses the line and, bang, he's all business and trying to win the drill. One minute he's putting ice cubes down a coach's back, and the next he's throwing a touchdown pass where he's totally focused on what he's doing.