I found Mick Jagger. . . very bright. I always liked him very much and still do.
It will be another million years, at least, before we understand the primes.
Why are numbers beautiful? It’s like asking why is Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony beautiful. If you don’t see why, someone can’t tell you. I know numbers are beautiful. If they aren’t beautiful, nothing is.
A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
Suppose aliens invade the earth and threaten to obliterate it in a year's time unless human beings can find the Ramsey number for red five and blue five. We could marshal the world's best minds and fastest computers, and within a year we could probably calculate the value. If the aliens demanded the Ramsey number for red six and blue six, however, we would have no choice but to launch a preemptive attack.
God may not play dice with the universe, but something strange is going on with the prime numbers.
The purpose of life is to conjecture and prove.
Attitudes are caught, not taught.
I felt like the universe was tapping me on the shoulder saying, "You're the guy who has to tell this story because nobody else is. "
Personal computing today is a rich ecosystem encompassing massive PC-based data centers, notebook and Tablet PCs, handheld devices, and smart cell phones. It has expanded from the desktop and the data center to wherever people need it — at their desks, in a meeting, on the road or even in the air.
The brain process that results in a joke materializing where no joke was before remains a mystery. I'm not aware of any scholarly, scientific or neurological studies on the subject.