Mathematicians are a bit like the laconic Vermonter who, when asked if he's lived in the state his whole life, replies, "Not yet."

There is something inhuman and vaguely pornographic about statistics... Pornography, on the other hand, with its loosely bound sequences of storyless sexual couplings often has the feel of a statistical survey.

Mathematics is no more computation than typing is literature.

The simple equations that generate the convoluted Mandelbrot fractal have been called the wittiest remarks ever made.

So many see themselves as aggrieved; so few see themselves as aggrievers.

Uncertainty would be the only certainty there's, and realizing how to stay with insecurity could be the only protection

The Internet is the world's largest library. It's just that all the books are on the floor.