I would like to make a confession which may seem immoral: I do not believe absolutely in Hilbert space any more.

If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.

You insist that there is something a machine cannot do. If you tell me precisely what it is a machine cannot do, then I can always make a machine which will do just that.

Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.

Computers are like humans - they do everything except think.

Truth is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations.

There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about.

Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.

With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk.

All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control.

There probably is a God. Many things are easier to explain if there is than if there isn't.

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

Thrilled with the knowledge that she loved me, it took me a moment to realize that she was angry. I found her tantrum irresistible." #Ren

A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.

True prosperity isn't something you take from the world: it's something you share with the world.

The Spear in the Other’s heart is the spear in your own: you are he.

Sport is cultural. What the star athlete does helps to define the culture. What the star athlete does on a Canadian team, especially if he or she is Canadian, helps define Canadian-ness.

I'm certainly not sorry that there were some things I missed. You may think you're missing something at that time but later when you look at it, you didn't miss anything.

Some of the angles that photographers get on court are not always flattering.

Happiness consists not in having, but of being, not of possessing, but of enjoying. It is the warm glow of a heart at peace with itself.

I will be brief. Your noble son is mad.