Quotation

These are a couple of quotes from today that I rather enjoyed:

In what he called his first major speech as Liberal leader, Stéphane Dion told a Toronto business audience Tuesday that Canadians can make enormous profits fighting climate change.

"Yes, Canada will cut megatonnes of emissions, but we will also make megatonnes of money," he told a joint breakfast meeting of the Toronto Board of Trade and the Economic Club of Toronto [link]

I'm imagining Dion uttering the phrase with his characteristic French accent and, in my head, at least, it's quite funny.

And, from one of my classes. As an introduction, my prof was lecturing on algebraic techniques regarding 'norms', which essentially are the measure of the length of a vector:

And so, if you want to get rid of norms, and by that I don't mean you're an iconoclast ...

It's a big word for the math crowd, and I think it flew over the head of most, but I rather enjoyed it.