The first lecture of each new year renews for most people a light stage fright.

Before creation, God did just pure mathematics. Then He thought it would be a pleasant change to do some applied.

Try a hard problem. You may not solve it, but you will prove something else.

The first test of potential in mathematics is whether you can get anything out of geometry.

The infinitely competent can be uncreative.

The surprising thing about this paper is that a man who could write it would.

A precisian professor had the habit of saying: "... quartic polynomial ax^4+bx^3+cx^2+dx+e , where e need not be the base of the natural logarithms."

I've been giving this lecture to first-year classes for over twenty-five years. You'd think they would begin to understand it by now.

A linguist would be shocked to learn that if a set is not closed this does not mean that it is open, or again that "E is dense in E" does not mean the same thing as "E is dense in itself".

A good mathematical joke is better, and better mathematics, than a dozen mediocre papers.

I listen only to Bach, Beethoven or Mozart. Life is too short to waste on other composers.

What's so unpleasant about being drunk?""Ask a glass of water!

Jesus had to reveal what prayer was not, before He taught what it is.

Yeah, Horemheb, you are under my command once more. You might be the pharaoh, but I am Tutankhamun! - Tut Reborn by Cyci Cade

The slinky and post-it notes are both products that came from mistakes. Don’t forget that mishaps can be turned into triumphs.

The name Cleopatra wakens the world to life.

In so many areas of life, I'm a spaz and incompetent.

To me thinking outside the box means; crossing disciplines and pulling in expertise and perspective from outside of the standard boundaries.

Golfers find it a very trying matter to turn at the waist, more particularly if they have a lot of waist to turn

I'm just going to write my books and do my work and release it. Let the world decide what it is, and if it's any good or not.

I'm not trying to overcome my father or fill his shoes or reach any kind of level that he did. We're talking about a [Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart] of rock music.