How are the germs made into a ring? By adding and multiplying.

I have no Napoleonic dream. I'm just hard-working and pragmatic.

In Moscow I feel most comfortable. I'm used to four different seasons; it's difficult for people in London to understand. People brought up in Russia like my kids want to play in the snow.

I'm realising my dream of owning a top football club. Some will doubt my motives, others will think I'm crazy.

My feeling would be that you lose something of the beauty of the Premiership by joining something not defined at the moment.

Investors have very short memories

To tell the truth I cannot call my childhood bad. In your childhood you can't compare things: one eats carrots, one eats candy, both taste good. As a child you cannot tell the difference.

The polynomial xn−1 is a force of nature.

I love this game, I love this sport, I love this league. Why don't I get my own team? (English Premiership football club)

Our strategy [at Chelsea] is to bring up our own players through the academy, which we have invested a lot in, and hope it gives results

If I had to think where I could live if not Moscow, London would be my first choice and second would be New York.

Life is a dance dream.

But they were not friends. They were here to keep each other from spinning off alone into the dark matter of the universe.

If the opponent offers keen play I don't object; but in such cases I get less satisfaction, even if I win, than from a game conducted according to all the rules of strategy with its ruthless logic.

...morning is the soul's night.

Young people, especially, are looking for religion so desperately that they are inventing new ones. They should not have to invent new ones; the old religions are pretty good.

Color is seductive. It changes as it interacts with other colors, it changes because of the light falling upon it, and it changes as it becomes larger in size.

Some facts in life are immutable. One is, trust no-one who uses the word 'trope'.

I do feel a responsibility because most people like me that are my age or younger, they don't quite make it over to the jazz side. They flirt with it, but they don't quite marry it.

A collection of books is the best of all universities.

The art of teaching is clarity and the art of learning is to listen.