Higher Math

“A mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems.” 

~ Alfréd Rényi  and Paul Erdős

…..as complete exhaustion sets in I am grateful for my mother who brought me dinner, for my father who stopped by the shop and helped me wash dishes, and for my friends who have let me vent, given me ideas, and given me hope. I am grateful for the customers without whom I could not pay my mortgage this month.

And, of course, I am thankful for that little goat who danced on a hill in Ethiopia when he discovered those dark, hard beans; and whoever decided coffee was indescribable with chocolate. To these I applaud for helping me get through a very hectic day!     Your Barista on a very hectic day. (to her loyal HardBean e-news subscribers)

~ Rebecca Wills, Young Entrepreneur & Equestrian,

Happy Birthday Hard Bean!

 
Happy Birthday to you
Love the mocha and the view
whether coffee, treat or just lunch
you’re the friendliest bunch -
. . . . and the music's great, too. 

You can't have too much coffee.

“…they put coffee in their coffee in Brazil.”

The Bean

 
Roasted dark and silky smooth,

I'm from a warmer climate.

Full of taste that fills your senses,

I'm ground to please your palette.

Meet a friend; listen deeply.

Gaze at art; breathe it in.

Warm your center.

Wake your eyes.

Pause and have a cup of me.

Coffee heightens your intelligence.

If you want to improve your understanding, drink coffee; it is the intelligent beverage.

~ Sydney Smith

Great coffee comes from shiny new machines.

The curve of its lines, like a gleaming kiss,
The steam of its expression, a whispering hiss,
 

How do the Italians know to make this…
A machine that makes my mocha-milk bliss?
 

Glossy shine
Silver matte
Stainless sparkle
Midnight solid
 
Dispense, dispense your inspiration!
Bellissima!

Coffee is inspiring.

Last comes the beverage of the Orient shore,

Mocha, far off, the fragrant berries bore.

Taste the dark fluid with a dainty lip,

Digestion waits on pleasure as you sip.

Coffee is electrical.

Coffee affects the diaphragm and the plexus of the stomach, from which it reaches the brain by barely perceptible radiations that escape complete analysis; that aside, we may surmise that our primary nervous flux conducts an electricity emitted by coffee when we drink it. Coffee's power changes over time. [Italian composer Gioacchino] Rossini has personally experienced some of these effects as, of course, have I. "Coffee," Rossini told me, "is an affair of fifteen or twenty days; just the right amount of time, fortunately, to write an opera." This is true. But the length of time during which one can enjoy the benefits of coffee can be extended. 

~ Honore de Balzac

Coffee is one of life's great essentials.

It is inhumane, in my opinion, to force people who have a genuine medical need for coffee to wait in line behind people who apparently view it as some kind of recreational activity.

~ Dave Barry

Pulitzer Prize winning humor columnist

Coffee is good for you.

Experts now generally agree that there is no consistent scientific evidence to prove coffee is detrimental to your health ... A recent study at the University of California at Davis even suggests that coffee may be good for you.

~ Denise Webb

Chief Information Officer

Wake up and smell the coffee.

Ah, that is a perfume in which I delight; when they roast coffee near my house, I hasten to open the door to take in all the aroma.

~  Jean Jacques Rousseau

Coffee gives you a song.

I orchestrate my mornings to the tune of coffee. 

~ Harry Mahtar

Morning Coffee (a concrete poem)

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hot comfort slides easily

on sweet creamy notes

down my throat

even the last drop is good

~ by Heather Trent Beers

Coffee bathes you in luxury.

Among the numerous luxuries of the table...coffee may be considered as one of the most valuable. It excites cheerfulness without intoxication; and the pleasing flow of spirits which it occasions...is never followed by sadness, languor or debility. 

Coffee brings clarity to life.

O Coffee, thou dost dispel all care, thou art the object of desire to the scholar.   

Coffee makes you brilliant.

The powers of a man's mind are directly proportioned to the quantity of coffee he drinks.

- Sir James Mackintosh

Coffee satisfies.

Actually, this seems to be the basic need of the human heart in nearly every great crisis - a good hot cup of coffee.          

~     Alexander King

British scientist
US Medal of Freedom recipient

Coffee attracts the best of life.

Good coffee is like friendship: rich and warm and strong.

Coffee - The original health drink.

Coffee - the drink that comforteth the brain and heart and helpeth digestion.

Coffee is healing.

Coffee is balm to the heart and spirit.

~ Giuseppe Verdi

Celebrated composer of many operas including

Coffee will give you long life.

The morning cup of Café Noir is an integral part of the life of a Creole household. The Creoles hold as a physiological fact that this custom contributes to longevity, and point, day after day, to examples of old men and women of fourscore, and over, who attest to the powerful aid they have received through life from a good, fragrant cup of coffee in the early morning.” 

Coffee makes you witty.

The coffee is prepared in such a way that it makes those who drink it witty: at least there is not a single soul who, on quitting the house, does not believe himself four times wittier than when he entered it…

Charles de Secondat Montesquieu

a French social commentator and political thinker who lived during the Enlightenment. He is famous for his articulation of the theory of separation of powers, taken for granted in modern discussions of government and implemented in many constitutions throughout the world.

Coffee separates man from the animals (especially dead ones).

"Without my morning coffee I'm just like a dried up piece of roast goat."

~Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
timeless composer in
The Coffee Cantata

Coffee empowers you to do amazing things.

In Seattle you haven't had enough coffee until you can thread a sewing machine while it's running. 

Coffee will get your day started.

Coffee is the best thing to douse the sunrise with. 

Coffee will give you sweetness.

No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils. 

Coffee will make you debonair.

Suave molecules of Mocha stir up your blood, without causing excess heat; the organ of thought receives from it a feeling of sympathy; work becomes easier and you will sit down without distress to your principal repast which will restore your body and afford you a calm, delicious night.

Coffee will inspire you.

A fig for partridges and quails,
ye dainties I know nothing of ye;
But on the highest mount in Wales
Would choose in peace to drink my coffee.

Coffee will make you a success.

Behind every successful woman is a substantial amount of coffee.

Coffee will make you wise.

No one can understand the truth until he drinks of coffee's frothy goodness. 

 ~Sheik Abd-al-Kadir

Coffee is praised from the final frontier.

Coffee, the finest organic suspension ever devised. 

 ~ Star Trek: Voyager

Coffee will make you strong.

Coffee will make you smart.

Coffee Haiku

Foam roses are etched
In velvet, golden crema
Afterwards, jitters.