If you understand something, you understand that it is obvious.

I used to say: "Everything is Representation Theory". Now I say: "Nothing is Representation Theory".

One of the reasons we don't do as well as we should is that we are all over-taught.

My seminar is for highschool students, decent undergraduates, bright graduates, and outstanding professors.

People (or students) do not have shortcomings, only uniquenesses. The goal of a good teacher is to turn these uniquenesses into advantages.

The older I get, the more I believe that at the bottom of most deep mathematical problems there is a combinatorial problem.

... The approach of von Neumann and Connes to the use of non-commutative algebra in physics is naive, the situation is much more complicated.

The more you know about something the less you fear about it.

Popularity gives you power only over people who care about being popular. Ostracism gives you power only over those who fear being ostracized.

I think it's true that the more sanitized a person is, you can't really relate to that person.

I'm an audience member too, man. I hate shitty sequels.

I usually find several ways to express myself: different moods, different days, different voices, different things, 'I'm lighthearted today, I'm gonna do this.'

That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.

Pablo Casals has this simple and sincere attitude of knowing where it's at - of saying, "This is the way it is." If I thought I could carry some of that into my life, I would be happy.

I'm taking a lot of my favorite artists, different people, my favorite music and marrying that with what I do as a comic. It's very collaborative, arty, fun and cool.

A sweet thing, perspective - a chance to see your enemies so small.