I am sort of an adventurer. I like to explore new places. I don't get to travel as often as I would like but I love it.
The mistakes and unresolved difficulties of the past in mathematics have always been the opportunities of its future.
Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions.
Obvious is the most dangerous word in mathematics.
If indeed, as Hilbert asserted, mathematics is a meaningless game played with meaningless marks on paper, the only mathematical experience to which we can refer is the making of marks on paper.
The only royal road to elementary geometry is ingenuity.
Nevertheless, the consuming hunger of the uncritical mind for what it imagines to be certainty or finality impels it to feast upon shadows in the prevailing famine of substance.
I like to be firm. But it is easier to be nice than to be nasty.
There's a whole segment of the population with a mentality that bases good times on where they can go and what they can buy.
Nowadays, an artist is someone who makes art mean the things he does.
If you can create a career built on passion, your chances for success, fulfillment, and longevity are far greater than if you take any old job simply for the paycheck.