In mathematics we do not appeal to authority, but rather you are responsible for what you believe.

The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers.

Given two people with exactly the same ability, the one person who manages day in and day out to get in one more hour of thinking will be tremendously more productive over a lifetime.

There are wavelengths that people cannot see, there are sounds that people cannot hear, and maybe computers have thoughts that people cannot think.

If you don't work on important problems, it's not likely that you'll do important work.

Newton said, "If I have seen further than others, it is because I've stood on the shoulders of giants." These days we stand on each other's feet!

The most dangerous thought you can have as a creative person is to think you know what you’re doing.

Typing is no substitute for thinking.

Mathematics is not merely an idle art form, it is an essential part of our society.

True greatness is when your name is like ampere, watt, and fourier-when it's spelled with a lower case letter.

You can tell other people all the alibis you want. I don't mind. But to yourself try to be honest.

A lack of narrative structure, as you know, will cause anxiety.

Basic understanding of who were are is through Self Awareness. By understanding our thoughts we can dive deeper into them and get a better understanding of who we are in the process.

So I flirt with disaster once or twice. Who doesn’t?”He snorted. “You don’t just flirt with disaster, you have intercourse with it.

You are no more exempt from time's inexorable passing than Macbeth. Whether time is your friend or foe depends on how you use it

There is no theory. You merely have to listen. Pleasure is the law.

It takes so long to put a movie into production and finish it that anyone with a bad idea has time to give it to you before the movie is completed.

Good and bad may not be dissevered; There is, as there should be, a commingling.

Holiness is not a merit by which we can attain communion with God, but a gift of Christ, which enables us to cling to him, and to follow him.

Remember, Jesus says: Those who are the last here will be the first in my kingdom of God.

After eighteen years of being utterly ordinary, I finally found that I can shine" -Bella Swan <3