I grew up in Cambridge in England, and my love of mathematics dates from those early childhood days.

I tried to fit it in with some previous broad conceptual understanding of some part of mathematics that would clarify the particular problem I was thinking about.

Pure mathematicians just love to try unsolved problems - they love a challenge.

Always try the problem that matters most to you.

I had this rare privilege of being able to pursue in my adult life, what had been my childhood dream.

Mathematicians aren't satisfied because they know there are no solutions up to four million or four billion, they really want to know that there are no solutions up to infinity.

The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself.

The greatest problem for mathematicians now is probably the Riemann Hypothesis.

I never use a computer.

However impenetrable it seems, if you don't try it, then you can never do it.

Just because we can't find a solution it doesn't mean that there isn't one.

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on TheeAnd I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.

Die with memories, not dreams.

LET us honour the King by cherishing respectful Sentiments concerning him; speaking of him with Affection, with Esteem and Reverence; and by promoting a like Spirit and Conduct in others.

It's my first trip as president of the United States.

A woman's love is like the morning dew. It's just as likely to settle on a horse turd as a rose.

Nothing ought to be said or done which could create the impression that unbiased reconsideration of the most elementary premises of philosophy is a merely academic or historical affair.

There is no such thing, as far as I'm concerned, as ownership in love.

If there had been no fear of failure, neither would there be any joy in success.

The need to manage oneself is creating a revolution in human affairs.

Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise--a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.