The critic and the creator

“It is a melancholy experience for a professional mathematician to find himself writing about mathematics. The function of a mathematician is to do something, to prove new theorems, to add to mathematics, and not to talk about what he or other mathematicians have done. Statesmen despise publicists, painters despise art-critics, and physiologists, physicists, or mathematicians [...]

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Starbucks shuts down

Erm..don’t panic, it is not long-term! All Starbucks stores across the country will be closed for three hours this evening to conduct an in-store education and training program for their employees.
This is how Howard Schultz (founder, chairman and CEO of Starbucks) puts it.
We will close all of our U.S. company-operated stores to teach, educate and [...]

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