"Errors are not in the art but in the artificers."
"The dark outside world of Paris under German occupation exerted a strong containing pressure."
"I thank God for not making me a computer scientist."
"Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure."
"Most economists, when modeling market behavior, tend to sweep major fluctuations under the rug and assume they are anomalies. What I have found is that major rises and falls in prices are actually inevitable."
"All around us, algorithms provide a kind of convenient source of authority: an easy way to delegate responsibility, a short cut we take without thinking."
"It was traditional to not actually cash the prizes that Erdos did award while he was alive. People usually framed the cheque instead."
"When about fifteen I once made a great scandal by taking out my knife in prayer meeting and assaulting a young man who, while I was kneeling down during the prayer, stood above me and squeezed my neck."
"Pure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied. For what is useful above all is technique, and mathematical technique is taught mainly through pure mathematics."
"To consult the statistician after an experiment is finished is often merely to ask him to conduct a post mortem examination. He can perhaps say what the experiment died of."
"So much the worse, it may be, for a particular meeting: but the meeting is the individual, which on evolution principles, must be sacrificed for the development of the race."
"It is safe to make a choice of your thoughts, scarcely ever safe to express them all."
"No one shall expel us from the paradise that Cantor has created for us."
"The centre of the system of the world is immovable."
"So far as the economic condition of society and the general mode of living and thinking were concerned, I might claim to have lived in the time of the American Revolution."
"I know that if I could really understand mental illness, then it would be appropriate to make a big career shift. I would become a therapist and a leader in terms of mental illness. But I'm not in the position."
"My father was the most rational and the most dispassionate of men."
"God made integers, all else is the work of man."
"Go see 'Hidden Figures,' and take a young person! It will give a more positive outlook on what is possible if you work hard, do your best, and are prepared."
"A cloud is made of billows upon billows upon billows that look like clouds. As you come closer to a cloud you don't get something smooth, but irregularities at a smaller scale."
"Wind depends on temperature. Temperature depends on pressure. And pressure depends on wind. It's an intricate mathematical tapestry that is far too intertwined to unpick by hand."
"I'm really only interested in building this intellectual movement. The I.D.W. has bigger goals than anyone's buzz or celebrity."
"The average user doesn't give a damn what happens, as long as (1) it works and (2) it's fast."
"The science of operations, as derived from mathematics more especially, is a science of itself, and has its own abstract truth and value."
"Both parents worshiped individual achievement, but because of the Depression and the war, they never achieved what they wanted and deserved. So their ambition and high expectations were transferred to me."
