Then when I reached college, I realized that many people had thought about the problem during the 18th and 19th centuries and so I studied those methods.

I tried to fit it in with some previous broad conceptual understanding of some part of mathematics that would clarify the particular problem I was thinking about.

Pure mathematicians just love to try unsolved problems - they love a challenge.

Always try the problem that matters most to you.

I had this rare privilege of being able to pursue in my adult life, what had been my childhood dream.

Mathematicians aren't satisfied because they know there are no solutions up to four million or four billion, they really want to know that there are no solutions up to infinity.

The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself.

I grew up in Cambridge in England, and my love of mathematics dates from those early childhood days.

The greatest problem for mathematicians now is probably the Riemann Hypothesis.

I never use a computer.

However impenetrable it seems, if you don't try it, then you can never do it.

When a friend leaves you, you move on. When a best friend leaves you, part of you is gone

For me, I really love 'Tim and Eric' and 'Dr. Steve Brule' and a lot of the Adult Swim shows, so I like strange, weird, sometimes slightly upsetting humor.

All of the good movies are based on how that story was told. And you cannot do it with a bad script, that's for sure, no matter who.

Here's the main page of motivational quotes, if you want a different topic. Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.

Rapping about a surgery is something that makes sense for me to do.

None of us is ever OK, but we all get through everything just fine.

Look at government programs for the past fifty years. Every single one - except warfare - achieved the exact opposite of its announced goal.

A fitting external security environment could also play an important role in promoting social consensus and institutionalization towards democratization.

Worship of Jesus is rather harmless and risk-free; actually following Jesus changes everything.

Cling tight to your sense of humour. You will need it every day.