It hurts, it hurts. . . Im dying, I'm dying.
Always try the problem that matters most to you.
I tried to fit it in with some previous broad conceptual understanding of some part of mathematics that would clarify the particular problem I was thinking about.
But the best problem I ever found, I found in my local public library.
I had this rare privilege of being able to pursue in my adult life, what had been my childhood dream.
Pure mathematicians just love to try unsolved problems - they love a challenge.
Mathematicians aren't satisfied because they know there are no solutions up to four million or four billion, they really want to know that there are no solutions up to infinity.
Something will pop up in my head. It could be like the weirdest thing. Like all'a sudden like I have like a jumping banana in my head.
But then I remembered something Grandmere had once assured me of: No one has ever died of embarrassment-never, not once in the whole history of time.
The worst thing is to sit and whine and complain and obsess about money as if that were the only sign of your worth as a human.
When it comes to the president, we have to respect him, we have to protect him, and we have to correct him. And in my career, since he'd been on the national stage at least, I've had - I've always respected the president.