I used to be surprised and even depressed when I met someone I had admired and discovered him or her to be a jerk or, perhaps worse, rather common. Now I half expect this reaction and even find it a little reassuring, maybe even uplifting. Isn't it amazing that somebody like that could produce such and such.

I think, therefore I laugh.

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

Defined broadly enough, mathematics encompasses everything.

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

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.

In the stock market... You can be right for the wrong reasons or wrong for the right reasons.