Someone has said that all the great jugglers are dead.

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.

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'.

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.

Knowing is important, but understanding is everything.

I think you could wear a paper bag and still look good.

There won't be any biographies of me, for only one reason, lives spent between the house and the chicken farm do not make for exciting copy.

We were not told how Alexander the Great was the last person in history to successfully 'pacify' what would become Afghanistan, over 2, 000 years ago.

Many persons of high intelligence have notoriously poor judgement.

The first thing you have to know is yourself. A man who knows himself can step outside himself and watch his own reactions like an observer.

Four elements make up the climate of war: danger, exertion, uncertainty and chance.

I listen to lots of music, especially Bach, opera (all periods), German lieder, chamber music, and rock, old and new. I can't listen to music while I write. It's too absorbing.

[ J. Edgar]Hoover, I'm sure, felt that he was right in everything he did and even the things that we don't like about his character.

I grew up in northern California in a town called Fairfield, which is kind of exactly between San Francisco and Sacramento, a small suburb. And I'm the youngest of five children.