The world is continuous, but the mind is discrete.

Images of the world are Renormalization Group fixed points.

I am accustomed, as a professional mathematician, to living in a sort of vacuum, surrounded by people who declare with an odd sort of pride that they are mathematically illiterate.

Logic has virtually nothing to do with the way we think.

The world is a very complicated place, as babies know.

I think that mathematics can benefit by acknowledging that the creation of good models is just as important as proving deep theorems.

The extreme possibilities are the most illuminating.

Bring love and peace and happiness and beautiful lives into the world in my honor. Thank you. Love you.

Shame is, hands down, the most uncomfortable feeling. And, because it produces continuous amounts of inflammatory chemicals in the body, it is also a health risk.

I do realise that when I laugh, it sounds like a seal is being molested.

If I have just an ounce of sense, I follow the great Way, and fear only to stray from it.

The most unsuccessful three years in the education of cost estimators appears to be fifth-grade arithmetic.

Love brings freedom. Loyalty brings slavery.

People have their complexities. They have their heroic moments and their villainous moments, too.

I could tell you what my good qualities are. There's my honesty; I have a very wacky, kind of dry humor that a lot of people don't get to see.

I don't have confidence in my instincts, and I feel like I have to go through a very right-brain and left-brain process.

What feminism did was make clear for me how much I longed for clarity. I got married twice, each time in a fog. I had so many complicated feelings I couldn't understand.