Mathematicians tend to prefer a worst-case analysis, a kind of paranoia that is especially understandable if you live in Israel!

In highschool I was very excited that alog(b)=blog(a), and still find it useful today.

Computers are here to stay. It is a major challenge for the future to use computers efficiently in combinatorics without losing its special appeal.

There is an explicit way to define what explicit is.

Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness.

When people are laughing, they're generally not killing one another.

I caught hold of the great bull market in soybeans in 1977. I had no idea what I was doing, incidentally.

Good prose is written only face to face with poetry.

Nowhere but in France are people so strictly observant of great matters and so disdainfully indulgent about small ones.

Writing is like a mental masturbation to me.

Yet is beauty the pleasing trickery that cheateth half the world.

A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.

In relation to the question of hope, I think the only hope we have is hope against hope. We hope for a better world. But of course we can do better than just hope.

Tip of the day- Don't smash your face!