It's the same with your dreams and nightmares. You have to feed them to keep them alive.

Mathematicians won the war. Mathematicians broke the Japanese codes and built the A-bomb. In medicine or economics, in technology or in space, battle lines are being drawn. To triumph we need results - publishable, applicable results. Now, who among you will be the next Morse, the next Einstein? Who among you will be the vanguard of democracy, freedom and discovery? Today we bequeath America's future into your able hands. Welcome to Princeton, gentlemen.

One more thing. Do you have a name or should I keep calling you "Miss"?

Perhaps it is good to have a beautiful mind, but an even greater gift is to discover a beautiful heart.

Terrified, petrified, mortified, stupified...by you.

There has to be a mathematical explanation for how bad your tie is.

Through the physical, the metaphysical, the delusional and back.

You know, Hansen has just published another paper. I can't imply a topic for my doctorate.

Your comfort comes second to my ability to hear my own voice.