Where there is no math, there is no freedom.

It was as though applied mathematics was my spouse, and pure mathematics was my secret lover.

Mathematics directs the flow of the universe, lurks behind its shapes and curves, holds the reins of everything from tiny atoms to the biggest stars.

Where there is no mathematics, there is no freedom.

I watched the spinning stars, grateful, sad and proud, as only a man who has outlived his destiny and realizes he might yet forge himself another, can be.

Edit your manuscript until your fingers bleed and you have memorized every last word. Then, when you are certain you are on the verge of insanity...edit one more time!

Nothing like being in a dream, then waking up to a nightmare.

Evening came, a paw, to the gray hut by the river.

To know one's own desires, their meaning and their costs requires the highest human virtue: rationality.

If you first gain power to check your words, you will then begin to have power to check your judgment, and at length actually gain power to check your thoughts and reflections.

Moses probably danced a little, right? You don't part the Red Sea without having some moves.

I submit to you that when in each man the dream of personal greatness dies, democracy loses the real source of its future strength.

There's a good part of Computer Science that's like magic. Unfortunately there's a bad part of Computer Science that's like religion.

I want to change the color of Starbucks from green to red. Whose job was it to say, This is going to be green? I want that to be my job.