If I do marry I want it to be for love
Mathematics is much less formally complete and precise than computer programs.
Mathematics is not about numbers, equations, computations, or algorithms: it is about understanding.
The real satisfaction from mathematics is in learning from others and sharing with others.
Math is really about the human mind, about how people can think effectively, and why curiosity is quite a good guide.
The product of mathematics is clarity and understanding. Not theorems, by themselves. . . . In short, mathematics only exists in a living community of mathematicians that spreads understanding and breathes life into ideas both old and new.
You don't see what you're seeing until you see it but when you do see it, it lets you see many other things.
Am I the only one who measures time using songs? “Oh it only took me 4 songs to get here! that’s not to long!
Nietzsche says that as soon as he had read a single page of Schopenhauer, he knew he would read every page of him and pay heed to every word, even to the errors he might find. Every intellectual aspirant will be able to name men whom he has read in this way.
Fiction is truth. I think fiction is the truest thing there ever was. My whole effort is to remove that distinction. The writer is the midwife of understanding. It's very important for me to tell politics like a story, to make it real.
Confined to common life thy numbers flow, And neither soar too high nor sink too low; There strength and ease in graceful union meet, Though polished, subtle, and though poignant, sweet; Yet powerful to abash the from of crime And crimson error's cheek with sportive rhyme. [Lat. , Verba togae sequeris, junctura callidus acri, Ore teres modico, pallentes radere mores Doctus, et ingenuo culpam defigere ludo. ]