Mathematics is not a careful march down a well-cleared highway, but a journey into a strange wilderness, where the explorers often get lost. Rigour should be a signal to the historian that the maps have been made, and the real explorers have gone elsewhere.
So put me on a highwayAnd take it to the limit one more time.
My highway is unfeatured air, My arms unstained and free from scars.
No man can make a stable-yard of the King's highway.
During the brief span of their lives they walked in their native garments down the great highway of a great nation; were laughed at, sworn at, chased, and fled from. Then they passed and were heard of no more.
This is for all the lonely people And ride that highway in the sky.
So long as a man rides his hobbyhorse peaceably and quietly along the King's highway, and neither compels you or me to get up behind him — pray, Sir, what have either you or I to do with it?
The biggest construction project in U.S. history, Boston's "Big Dig," cost about $15 billion. In fact, the entire cost of building the interstate highway system, expressed in today's dollars, was $540 billion -- less than a third of what was wasted in Iraq.