I was reminded of the Sydney Harris cartoon that said 'adding two numbers that have not been added before does not constitute a mathematical breakthrough'.

Math is sometimes called the science of patterns.

Juggling is sometimes called the art of controlling patterns, controlling patterns in time and space.

Someone has remarked that 'An ideal math talk should have one proof and one joke and they should not be the same'.

AB=1/4((A+B)^2-(A-B)^2) is an amazing identity, and unfortunately, I have to remind my current students how to prove it.

Someone has said that all the great jugglers are dead.

The ultimate goal of mathematics is to eliminate all need for intelligent thought.

Well, as you know, there are 24 hours in every day. And if that's not enough, you've always got the nights!

A lot of the high-level sports are really in your mind.

What is in great demand, but scarce, is expensive, but even when wisdom is not in demand it is priceless.

Yay, science.

Shakira is a talented singer, and I am a huge fan of her.

Veterans continue to get the short end of the stick when it comes to this administration.

The problem with anger is that once it burns out, you're left with empty tanks.

It's hard to see any institutional structure that stands in the way of the homogenization and simplification of these supply chains in international capitalism, unless it is the nation state.

It was ironic; he held her captive, yet she’d captivated him.

I never see the dawn that I don't say to myself perhaps.

Life is deeply tragic and also very comic at the same time. It's everything at once.

I think one's character on the athletic field does not have to have anything to do with the way they are in real life.