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

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.

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

But Hey, Guess What Crazy means I'm not liablefor my actions. So screw it, I'll go home, propped up on Prozac against distractions

There is no greater beast than envy, no greater thief than fear, no greater enemy than greed, no greater predator than wrath, and no greater poison than bitterness.

If you intend to make a living at drawing, by all means learn it [the rules of perspective] now, and do not have them bothering you and your work for the rest of your life.

The five members with the same dream have fulfilled our dream together

Weapons are ominous tools. They are not the noble ruler's tools. He only uses them when he can't avoid it.

Cause there's a light in me that shines brightly. They can try, but they can't take that away from me.

Will you pretend you're my boyfriend?

The Rich Man's Banquet, which was to last for a decade, had now begun: the feast, it was recognised, went to the greediest.

I think it's just natural when you're governing, that it's not always easy to remain as pure in principle as you'd like to be.

Tomorrow you'll be brave, you say? Fool! Dive today.