Computation involves going from a question to an answer. Mathematics involves going from an answer to a question.

Adaptability to change is itself a hallmark of successful education.

It is a wry commentary on the value-system in the United States that one speaks there of "teacher training" and "driver education."

Mathematics should be fun.

Mathematics is for lazy people.

Life is more fun if you play games.

Those things that are not within your control can often be the very things that set you free.

Look around the room a few times a day as if you had just been born into that room.

You're in the right place at the right time, and you care enough to do what needs to be done. Sometimes that's enough.

But one does not make living writing poetry unless you're a professor, and one frankly doesn't get a lot of girls as a poet.

Almost everyone who has had an idea that's somewhat revolutionary or wildly successful was first told they're insane.

what I love is slowness. Slow people, slow reading, slow traveling, slow eggs, and slow love. Everything good comes slow.

That's where I got the idea to paint the walls of the gallery with varied colours [at the Whitechapel show]. I tried to figure out how all these Renaissance paintings manage to work together.

The first step of any communication is honest & consistent intentions, after this, even if you don't communicate, people will listen, hear & align

Together, hand in hand, with our matches and our necklaces, we shall liberate this country.