Tension is the great integrity.

So long as mathematicians can impose up-and-down semantics upon students while trafficking personally in the non-up-and-down advantages of their concise statements, they can impose upon the ignorance of man a monopoly of access to accurate processing of information and can fool even themselves by thought habits governing the becoming behavior of professional specialists, by disclaiming the necessity of, or responsibility for, comprehensive adjustment of the a priori thought to total reality of universal principles.

When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem.

The reward for being a good problem solver is to be heaped with more and more difficult problems to solve

Everything we see is inside our own heads.

It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest.

Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.