... it can often be profitable to try a technique on a problem even if you know in advance that it cannot possibly solve the problem completely.

Ultimately you should follow advice not because someone tells you to, but because it was something that you already knew you should be doing.

Education is a complex, multifaceted, and painstaking process, and being gifted does not make this less so.

Pointing out that countless great mathematicians had tried to solve the problem and failed before you came along is in particularly bad taste and should be avoided completely.

Unsolicited surprise requests from strangers are essentially guaranteed to be met with a negative response.

Volume grows spatially slower than scaling.

If I could, I'd write a huge encyclopedia just about the words luck and coincidence

Losing something might be a blessing

Most ideas are step-by-step children of other ideas.

I would treat her like an egg, the shell of which we remove before eating it; I would take off her mask and then kiss her pretty face.

These days, you don't just break into comics once. You have to break in again and again after each job is finished.

Your experience will be a lesson to all of us men to be careful not to marry ladies in very high positions.

The cross is not a mere event in history; it's a way of life! Take up your cross DAILY, Jesus said!

A writer or painter cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of nonconformity alive.

Selflessness is like waiting in a hospital In a badly-fitting suit on a cold wet morning. Selfishness is like listening to good jazz With drinks for further orders and a huge fire.

I'm from the theater, darling. I want to know what happens at the end.