Independence is the central concept of probability theory and few would believe today that understanding what it meant was ever a problem. - Mark Kac

Mathematics is an ancient discipline. For as long as we can reliably reach into the past, we find its development intimately connected with the development of the whole of our civilization. For as long as we have a record of man's curiosity and his quest for understanding, we find mathematics cultivated and cherished, practiced and taught. Throughout the ages it has stood as an ultimate in rational thought and as a monument to man's desire to probe the workings of his own mind.

Where there is independence there must be the normal law.

When one is young, and seventeen is very young, one lives in the present. The future, even the near future, is cloaked in unreality.