Numb3rs 2x24

Hot Shot

Season 2, Episode 24

* Charlie: What side of that fence do you sit on?
   Larry: Oh, I rarely dream. I mean, every once in a while, I have this recurring dream in which my Aunt Louise is attempting to consume my flesh, but as a general rule, no. I like to think it's because I live in the moment, but of course it could be due to some greater neuro-chemical imbalance. That certainly might explain some things.

* Agent Granger: And, yeah, no guy agrees not to have sex.

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* Larry: You know, numbers may be abstract, Charles, but nevertheless, they are objective descriptions of the world around us. But dreams... dreams can only discernable to the dreamer.


* Dan: I did shoot a man.
   Dad: Yeah, because you had no choice.
   Dan: You always have a choice.
   Dad: Well, then, the trick is to learn how to live with the ones you make.
   Dan: That would be the trick.

--- Словарик:
discern — видеть, понимать; различать

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End of Season 2

Numb3rs 2x23

Undercurrents

Season 2, Episode 23

* Agent Sinclair: Why do they always run?
   Agent Granger: 'Cause we wear suits, man. Guys figure you can outrun a guy in a suit.

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* Agent Granger: We're the only white people in here.
   Agent Sinclair: Yes, we are. Probably already made us.
   Agent Granger: We don't exactly blend in.

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Numb3rs 2x22

Backscatter

Season 2, Episode 22

* Dan: In a million years, I never would've imagined that, you?
   Dad: I think Charlie would say it was a statistically possible but unlikely event.

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--- Словарик:
Backscatter — обратное рассеяние, рассеяние назад

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Rampage

Season 2, Episode 21

* Charlie: Don and I are simply talking... talking about inequality bounding. And, uh... and then I heard breaking glass... and a bullet goes past my head. There's noise. There's blood.
   Larry: Chaos. Chaos...
   Charlie: "Chaos" presupposes an observable or measurable system. A deterministic equation with an outcome sensitive to initial conditions.
   Larry: I was speaking in the vernacular, Charlie.

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* Dad: You know, fear is a very practical feeling, Charlie. It's, um... well, it's mostly common sense, telling you not to poke the alligator with the stick.


--- Словарик:
vernacular — просторечный (в противоп. литературному, письменному)

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Numb3rs 2x19

Dark Matter

Season 2, Episode 19

* Megan: Coincidence?
   Larry: Well, as a prominent cosmologist once said, "Coincidence is the last refuge of the uninspired".
   Megan: What cosmologist said that?


* Larry: Merely a very crude attempt at lending privacy. At the risk of sounding embarrassingly misguided, would you care to join me for dinner? Or a show, perhaps? Or maybe even some terpsichorean pleasure?
   Megan: I don't know what the third one means, but dinner sounds nice.

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* Charlie: You got a date, huh? You don't seem too excited.
   Larry: Mine is an inner frenzy. Like some highly agitated molecular brew. I can't even settle on a restaurant.
   Charlie: Well, you know, Italian's always romantic.
   Larry: The kinetics of angel hair and red sauce, it's a bit too much of a challenge, I'm afraid. Plus, I think I prefer not to wear a bib.
   Charlie: I think you need to loosen up, you know? Free your molecules, and your ass will follow.
   Larry: Oh, yeah, well, sound advice.


* Larry: You know, in cosmology, when faced with logical inconsistencies, I like to fall back on an old chestnut: if you don't like the answer, ask a different question.


--- Словарик:
prominent — известный, выдающийся
uninspired невдохновлённый, невоодушевлённый; банальный
Merely — только, просто; единственно
embarrassingly — смущающий, затруднительный, стеснительный
inner — внутренний; духовный, интеллектуальный; интимный; тайный, сокровенный
frenzy — безумие, бешенство; неистовство;
agitated — взволнованный, возбуждённый; обеспокоенный
bib — детский нагрудник; верхняя часть фартука
loosen up — расслабиться
chestnut — (разг.) избитый анекдот; пошлый, банальный мотив; роман и т. п. на избитую тему

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Numb3rs 2x18, 20

All's Fair

Season 2, Episode 18

* Charlie: Dad, analysis of classic Sudoku has revealed six and a half sextillion possible completed grids, and five and a half billion essentially different grids.
   Dad: But none of that is gonna help me with this particular problem I have.
   Charlie: Well, you could also save time by using a program to solve the puzzle.
   Dad: Charlie, the object of doing the puzzle is to relax by wasting time.
   Charlie: Using a solution program is relaxing for some people.

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Guns and Roses

Season 2, Episode 20

* Charlie: Nothing like taking stock of one's life bit safer from a numerical standpoint.



--- Словарик:
to take stock of smb. — критически осматривать кого-л., изучать кого-л.

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Numb3rs 2x17

Mind Games

Season 2, Episode 17

* Don: Hey. So what do you think?
   Charlie: He knew about the murders. He has to be involved somehow.
   Don: Well, maybe.
   Charlie: Don. This psychic stuff. You cannot take it seriously, okay?
   Don: Charlie, can you prove to me there's nothing to it?
   Charlie: There is no scientific evidence for the existence of psychic ability, okay? None whatsoever.
   Don: Yeah?
   Charlie: It's make-believe. {...} It's an act, man. They're guessing, okay? They, they... Look. It's just like blindly throwing darts. Throw enough darts, you're gonna eventually hit a bull's-eye.
   Don: Yeah, but...
   Charlie: So look, that guy, he probably has such a deep desire to believe that he dismisses the misses and focuses on the hits. It's called optimistic bias.

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* Larry: Listen, the FBI has used psychics before, as have other law enforcement agencies, whether they admit to it or not.
   Charlie: Thank you for destroying any confidence I had in public safety.
   Larry: What is your criteria for this categorical dismissal of parapsychological phenomena?
   Charlie: Reality.
   Larry: Oh, yes, reality. What would that be? Newtonian reality? Einsteinian reality? Quantum reality?


* Charlie: I must admit, he's really good at what he does. See, he throws out a few vague statements, but remember, it's your willingness to believe him that fills in those blanks.
   Larry: Now, there's an unscientific assumption.

* Megan: He failed.
   Charlie: You see that? How bad?
   Megan: 25 cards. He got them all wrong.
   Charlie: All of them?
   Larry: Well, the odds of getting them all wrong are the same as getting them all right. Must be...
   Charlie: One in 33.5 million. That man is playing with us.


--- Словарик:
bias — пристрастие, предубеждение, пристрастное отношение
psychic — медиум; экстрасенс; парапсихологические явления
vague — неопределённый, туманный, нечёткий, неясный; смутный

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Numb3rs 2x15

The Running Man

Season 2, Episode 15

* Larry: Reliving old glories that can be a dangerous narcotic.


* Megan: You seem to have worked out the math pretty thoroughly.
   Student: Well, when you spend your life with nothing, you know what everything costs.


* Dad: Isn't it funny the people who are closest to us, they always find it easy to keep secrets.

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* Larry: I put my own name on the line for... I don't even know his name. I made a complete fool of myself.
   Amita: Larry, your heart was in the right place.
   Larry: Well-intentioned ignorance is a slender defense at best.


* Charlie: A person's journey through life is like a stone skipping across water. No matter how briefly it lands in one place, it leaves ripples behind, evidence that it has been there. Now by studying those ripples, we can determine the path of the stone. And with a little math and a lot of luck, we can determine where the stone began its journey.



--- Словарик:
persuasive — убедительный
ignorance — неведение, незнание, неосведомлённость
slender — скудный, незначительный; слабый, небольшой
ripples — рябь (на воде)

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Numb3rs 2x16

Protest

Season 2, Episode 16

* The point is, the more things change, the more they stay the same.

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Numb3rs 2x14

Harvest

Season 2, Episode 14

* Dad: I'm not saying it's right. I'm just saying... that when it comes to looking at your own mortality, ah, you'd grab on to anything to save your life.

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-- Словарик
grab — хватать

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Numb3rs 2x13

Double Down

Season 2, Episode 13

* Charlie: Well, blackjack is all about math. The point is to hit 21 without going over. The game is ruled by conditional probabilities. What you see affects what you're going to see.
   If an ace is dealt, then there's one less ace in the remaining cards. And knowing how the cards are likely to be dealt works to the card counter's advantage, because players can ask for a card whenever they want.
   But a dealer must take a card when the total is below 17 and can't take a card when the total is between 17 and 21. So lower value cards favor the dealer, because there's less likely chance that he'll bust.
   The opposite is true for picture cards. Each of them are worth ten. They favor the player, because the more of them that are left in the deck, the more chances for the dealer to bust.
   Now keeping exact track isn't easy, but card counters use certain techniques, like... Like assigning general values. Uh, plus one for cards two through six, minus one for picture cards, aces, tens, zeros for seven, eight, nine. High number count favors a player, they make their bets accordingly.
   Dad: Doesn't that attract attention?
   Charlie: Yeah, of course it does. Sometimes with grave consequences.

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* Larry: I don't think you understand just how truly narcotic this is for me.
   Charlie: Can't you just see this as... as field work?
   Larry: Unfortunately, it is a poppy field. I'm warning you both, we're standing at the precipice. This is the event horizon of a black hole.

* Larry: When the numbers are running you, instead of you running the numbers, it's time to take your money off the table, Leonard.

-- Словарик
bust — крах, банкротство
poppy — мак опийный; опий
precipice — обрыв, пропасть

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Numb3rs 2x12

The OG

Season 2, Episode 12

* Dad: Oh, hey, listen, I wanted to ask you guys something. It's her birthday coming up, and I wanted to get her a gift. You know, something... I don't know, I just... don't know what.
   Charlie: It's just a question of what you want to say. You know, two mathematicians from University College in London actually recently addressed this very same question.
   Don: Mathematicians?
   Dad: English mathematicians?
   Charlie: They used game theory to analyze the best characteristics of a courtship gift.
   Don: Yeah. Well, no offense, Charlie. It sounds to me like two math geeks who don't date much.
   Charlie: Well, assuming that the goal is the female's receptiveness... They found that an extravagant gift, one that's costly to the man, but of no real financial value to the woman, offers the best chance of success. So, why don't you buy her some flowers? You know what? Take her to dinner in a fancy restaurant.
   Dad: Okay, that's doable.
   Charlie: See? You guys still doubt the power of math?

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-- Словарик
courtship — ухаживание (за женщиной)
receptive — восприимчивый
doable — выполнимый

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Numb3rs 2x11

Scorched

Season 2, Episode 11

* Megan: I guess it does pays off sometimes to be a know-it-all.

* Megan: His second screen name is NanoTube?
   Granger: Yeah. Sounds like a nerd porno star, huh?
   Megan: Shows me where your head is at, Granger.

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* Charlie: I know what it's like to be that kid. I wished that I was a normal college kid sometimes. Kind of tough when you're still in puberty.
   Dad: Yeah, well, I'm sure there were plenty of kids who wished they were you.
   Charlie: Uh, during midterms, certainly. At keg parties, absolutely not.

-- Словарик
Scorch — обжигать; подпаливать; ранить, больно задевать (чьи-л.) чувства; сжигать дотла; полностью уничтожать

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Numb3rs 2x10

Bones of Contention

Season 2, Episode 10

* Larry: Don, I'm having some people over this week, if you want.
   Don: Oh, yeah? What's the occasion?
   Larry: I've sold my house and I wanna kind of say good-bye to it.
   Don: This dinner have a color scheme?
   Larry: Look, my predilection for white food is not pathological... or at least not just yet. The, uh, menu will manifest all colors of the spectrum, yes. Well, the visible spectrum.

* Larry: Hey, I'm organized. Enough.
   Charlie: Have you seen your office lately?
   Larry: There's a symmetry to my chaos, okay? My system is chronological by height.
   Charlie: A pretty poetic description of clutter.

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* Megan: Lawyers cost about $200 an hour. Goodwill would cost you a lot less.

* Larry: Who wants dessert?
   Don: Oh, wow. What, what is that?
   Larry: Liquid nitrogen. Plus milk. Cream... Sugar... and a little... vanilla.
   Amita: It's a fast and simple way to make ice cream.

* Dad: Uh-oh. Science versus religion. That could get ugly.
   Charlie: Well, certainly science doesn't require religion to change its basic concepts, just to reconsider the mechanisms involved.
   Larry: Yes, yes, but sometimes the mechanisms are just the point. I mean, Galileo spent the last years of his life under house arrest because he declared that the sun does not revolve around the earth.


-- Словарик
Contention — раздор, разногласие; спор; препирательство
clutter — смятение, суматоха; беспорядок; хаос; куча мусора

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Numb3rs 2x08

In Plain Sight

Season 2, Episode 8

* Larry: ... This is not even to take into account the double X chromosome situation.
   Charlie: Situation?
   Larry: Yeah. Women have two X chromosomes. Men have an X and a so-called Y. But I think if you examine it closely, you'll find, as I have, that the Y is really just an X with a piece missing.
   Charlie: Implying what?
   Larry: Well, since I'm missing that very piece, I may not be qualified to answer, but I think it has something to do with, you know, they're just more sensitive.
   Charlie: Or that they can bear children.
   Larry: Yeah, well, that, too, I guess.


* Larry: Aristotle said that infinity is the lack of limitation. Which, I suppose, could be a definition of evil.

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* Larry: There's only two gig of storage here. Yeah, I tried the FDISK command. It's rebooting, I'm guessing.

* Don: Yeah? What are you guys doing?
   Larry: Trying to follow the logic of an intelligent, paranoid pedophile.

* Larry: Well, I opted for sending Megan seven aromatic white tuberoses- anonymously.
   Charlie: Well, what good is it if she doesn't know it's you?
   Larry: Well, I'm a physicist, Charles. I believe she'll still feel the cloud of virtual possibilities surrounding her, even as she's not yet identified the particle.
   Charlie: Are you talking about "vibes?"
   Larry: Yeah, well, somewhat crudely put, but...


-- Словарик
opted — выбирать, делать выбор; предпочитать
vibes — флюиды, эманации (у спиритов и т. п.)
crudely — примерный, предварительный; грубый, ничем не при крытый, голый

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Numb3rs 2x04

Calculated Risk

Season 2, Episode 4

* Dad: You know... it's really okay to miss someone that you love. Well, uh... I think somewhere... it might even make them happy.

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* Larry: Do you have any idea what I could do with $300 million?
    Charlie: Three hundred and twelve.
    Larry: I was talking about my application for the Talis Foundation Research Grant.
    Charlie: Why are you worried about that?
    Larry: Because Ivan Tsorski has taken over the chairmanship of the grant committee.
    Charlie: You attacked his theory on polarization flux.
    Larry: I merely pointed out certain characteristics of gravitational waves that he had chosen to ignore.
    Charlie: Larry, I was there when he gave that paper. And you stood up and you called him a big, fat cheater in front of a room full of people.
    Larry: Well, no. Now you're exaggerating. That room could not have been more than half full.


-- Словарик
flux — поток
exaggerating — преувеличивать

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Numb3rs 2x07

Convergence

Season 2, Episode 7

* Larry: Well, wisdom and genius - rarely present in equal abundance.

* Don: What are you talking about?
   Charlie: Calendars aren't based on easily divisible factors. Okay? You know, they originally tried to make them like that. 360 days divides quite evenly. But it doesn't match with what you see in the night sky. So ancient calendars would add an extra month every eight years or tack on five extra days.

---

* Larry: What are you working on?
   Charlie: A unified theory of the neural network in higher cognitive functions. The math of the brain.
   Amita: I'd better stick to it, too.
   Charlie: It might take me a while... say, several decades.
Attaboy.
   Larry: Yeah, what is it they say? "The journey is more important than the destination?"
   Charlie: So true.

* Larry: You're doing a jigsaw puzzle.
   Dad: Oh, yeah, it's 5,000 pieces. So, what do you say you skip the seminar and we lower to pizza?
   Amita: I love jigsaw puzzles.
   Larry: And I love pizza...


-- Словарик
abundance — изобилие, избыток; множество
Convergence — (мат.) сходимость
evenly — поровну; равномерно; гладко, ровно

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Numb3rs 2x05

Assassin

Season 2, Episode 5

* Don: Charlie, how can you be sure if you haven't decoded the rest of Korfelt's book yet?
   Charlie: Pattern recognition. Everybody here does it all the time.
   I mean, you've all played scrabble, right? Your mind knows language. It sort of automatically searches for groupings of letters that makes sense to us that make a word. Well, my mind knows codes and ciphers.

---

* Larry: How'd you come by all this hard data on assassination techniques?
   Charlie: I have a friend at the NSA who has a friend at the... at the CIA.
   Larry: Yeah, don't even tell me. You know what's interesting? When a death must look accidental we automatically reject modern weapons in favor methods that have been around thousands of years. Drowning. Smothering. Blow to the noggin. I think we have to give value to defenestration.
   Charlie: What's... what's "defenestration"?
   Larry: Charles, come on. When I was an undergrad even math and science majors had to have English.
   Charlie: I took English, Larry. I didn't memorize the dictionary.
   Larry: Defenestration is... the act of throwing something out the window.

* Charlie: I never realized how hard it must be for Don. It's not easy what he does, is it?
   Dad: Uh, no. No, it's not.
   Charlie: Did you ever try to talk him out of doing that kind of work?
   Dad: We are talking about Don, right? See, Charlie, the thing about kids is that, um... you can't make them into what you want. You can teach them values, character and a little common sense. But then you have to let go. You have to let them become the man or woman that they're intended to be.
   Charlie: That doesn't sound easy, either.
   Dad: No, believe me. It's not.

* Charlie: You see, he may be considering a low-probability attack because he thinks that's what we won't be looking for. 'Cause if he's trying to outthink us we're going to be trying to outthink him. It's "cognitive hierarchy."
   A zero-step thinker will play the obvious moves. A one-step thinker will play the non-obvious moves. While the two-step thinker, he'll consider both types.

* Don: How?
   Charlie: By removing step-thinking entirely. It's like the game of chess... where you must think first before you move.
   Each player trying to outthink each other trying to guess each other's moves each other's strategy. The complexity of the game requires multi-step thinking. However, if one player can create the illusion he has committed
a zero-step move... a move that would give his opponent a significant advantage... that can create a false step of thinking in his opponent which will then prompt a move that delivers checkmate.
   You eliminate the need for a strategy by creating a move outside the conditions of the game. In other words, you set up an ambush.


-- Словарик
Drowning — утопление
Smothering — удушье
noggin — (разг.) башка, голова
ambush — засада

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Numb3rs 2x02

Bettor or Worse

Season 2, Episode 2

* Larry: Hey, Charlie, have you ever considered our place in the universe?
   Charlie: Certainly every time we speak.
   Larry: More to the point. You know, galaxies are constantly moving away from us and the farther away they are the faster they're leaving us behind.
   Charlie: This is more to what point again?
   Larry: Amita, Charlie.
   Charlie: Oh
   Larry: No, wait.. wait, wait. As you let that opportunity drift away it moves faster, and it moves farther.
   Charlie: It's more complicated than that.
   Larry: And no matter how complicated the shape and structure of a large star. You... you take away the nuclear fuel it becomes what? A black hole.
   Charlie: Mixing cosmic metaphors again are we?

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* Larry: The morose and pensive expression of the romantically confounded.
   Charlie: You know, it wasn't like I was thrilled when our date bombed out. You know, I can accept the fact that we're not compatible. You experiment. It doesn't work, you move on.
   Larry: Yeah, a cornerstone of scientific inquiry.
   Charlie: Right, but... thing is is, like... When we're working together we talk and we laugh. And there's an energy. And I don't understand why that doesn't work outside the office. Why don't we have anything else to talk about?
   Larry: You know, you're making an underlying assumption here that I question.
   Charlie: What's that?
   Larry: That there's something else you have to talk about. See, where you see two people unable to talk about politics or movies... I see two extraordinary minds that can communicate on the purest level a man and woman can interface on. Okay, second purest.


-- Словарик
Bettor = Better
morose — мрачный, угрюмый, замкнутый
pensive — печальный, меланхоличный
confounded — смущённый, сбитый с толку; поражённый

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Numb3rs 2x01

Judgment Call

Season 2, Episode 1

* Charlie: Sometimes math finds something that we can't explain.
   Don: And why Dolan is showing up as part of this case?
   Charlie: I can't fully explain. It's, uh... It's pi.
   David: Pi?
   Charlie: The ratio of circumference to the diameter of a circle.
   David: Yeah, I know what pi is.
   Charlie: Okay, but did you know that if you randomly drop needles onto a sheet of lined paper, the probability that a needle will cross a line relates directly to pi? It's call Buffon's needle.
   Pi appears in quantum mechanics, relativity theory, and number theory. But do you know why pi would show up in all of these seemingly unrelated places?
   David: Actually, I don't have a clue.
   Charlie: Neither do I. No one does yet, but, although we can't fully explain pi, it keeps working. It keeps turning up.

---

* Charlie: Your suspects aren't limited only to people who were convicted by the judge, right?
   Megan: That's right; there's also family members, friends, co-conspirators... The possibilities are exponential.
   Charlie: "Exponential" would mean that the growth rate is proportionate to its size, so, yeah, the mathematically correct term would be... "more."

* Don: Nadine. You know, I was just thinking about you.
   Nadine: What was I wearing?
   Don: Well, actually, I didn't get that far, but...

* Dr. Larry: You know that term "dark matter"? That has always perplexed me. It fallaciously implies that the 95% of our universe that can't be observed is some amorphous, eventless, just, uh, emptiness.
   Alan: I'm sorry?
   Dr. Larry: I suppose it's all too human. Instead of just admitting to the present limits of our knowledge we simply declare things to be unknowable.

* Megan: This isn't just a handful of A's and B's, Charlie. These are really raw human motivations, like rage and revenge.
   Charlie: Origami. In origami, there are six basic folds: mountain, valley, diagonal, fold and unfold, reverse, and turnover. Each fold is a simple, finite, imminently-quantifiable action. But the infinite number of combinations creates the possibility for an infinite number of forms.
   Decision theory contends that we should use the same basic criteria with every action we take. Risk, reward, consequence, and certainty.
   Megan: Human behavior is not that rational.
   Charlie: Well, that's why my system is not meant to be a replacement for your skills. It's simply a tool... to help you use them much more efficiently.

* Megan: You realize all your food is white?
   Dr. Larry: Mm, yes, I prefer white food.
   Megan: Why is that?
   Dr. Larry: Supersymmetry. It's a theory that describes the nature of connectivity in complex multidimensional space.
   Megan: Symmetry is also a term we use in behavioral science to explain obsessive behavior.
   Dr. Larry: Oh, is it now?
   Megan: I have a two-year-old nephew who won't eat anything but pasta with butter. We're a little worried he might be a budding scientist.
   Alan: Larry has a tendency to live out his theories.

* Don: Hey, Larry, what brings you here?
   Larry: Oh, I had some work to go over with Charlie, but he couldn't get away from here, so, the mountain comes, yet again, to Mohammed. ... Oh. Hey, Don, are you... are you familiar with, um, quantum entanglement?
   Don: Uh, I don't think so. I'm not sure.
   Larry: Okay, it's a theory that holds that photons come in pairs, that are separated by space and time, but always in instantaneous, inexplicable communication. Einstein calls it, uh, "spooky action at a distance." But, you know, I find it... I find the notion fairly romantic.
   Don: How so?
   Larry: Well, uh, I mean, we affect each other. Even when we don't mean to, even when we don't want to, we're connected, you see, even when we try to be unaffected.
   Don: Why do I get the feeling you're talking about my love life?
   Larry: Don, the universe is accelerating at such a rate that, some day, eventually, it will all fly apart, and all matter will just drift alone and become disconnected. And how sad that would be if human beings wereto behave in a similar fashion. And after considerable inner debate, I find that the risks of human contact are more than compensated for by the rewards.
   Don: I'll keep that in mind.


-- Словарик
perplexed — ошеломлённый, недоумевающий; сбитый с толку, растерянный; запутанный, сложный
fallacious — неправильный; ошибочный, ложный; обманчивый, иллюзорный
imminently-quantifiable — надвигающийся, нависший, неминуемый, неизбежный + поддающийся количественному определению
budding — подающий надежды, многообещающий
circumference — окружность; длина окружности
instantaneous — мгновенный, моментальный; немедленный, незамедлительный
inexplicable — не объяснимый
spooky — похожий на привидение, призрак; страшный; боязливый

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