Popular Culture
Travelling Salesman, by director Timothy Lanzone, is the story of 4 mathematicians hired by the US Government to solve the most elusive problem in computer-science history: P vs. NP.
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Famous quotes containing the words popular culture, popular and/or culture:
“Popular culture entered my life as Shirley Temple, who was exactly my age and wrote a letter in the newspapers telling how her mother fixed spinach for her, with lots of butter.... I was impressed by Shirley Temple as a little girl my age who had power: she could write a piece for the newspapers and have it printed in her own handwriting.”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)
“Kings govern by popular assemblies only when they cannot do without them.”
—Charles James Fox (1749–1806)
“The time will come when the evil forms we have known can no more be organized. Man’s culture can spare nothing, wants all material. He is to convert all impediments into instruments, all enemies into power.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)