If others would but reflect on mathematical truths as deeply and as continuously as I have, they would make my discoveries.

It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.

Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.

You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length.

Theory attracts practice as the magnet attracts iron.

You have no idea, how much poetry there is in the calculation of a table of logarithms!

There have been only three epoch-making mathematicians, Archimedes, Newton, and Eisenstein.

We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori.

Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders.

I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.

The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it.

He loves me, he loves me not. How many flowers must I kill before he loves me?” ~He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not

Rare and precious gifts, gold and myrrh and frankincense, to offer a king.

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God grante

I'm interested in technology for the masses. Good tech design should not just be for enthusiasts but for the general public. It should be something that touches everyone.

Perhaps that's what we're all looking for - desire undiluted by habit.

You can believe the diagnosis, not the prognosis.

Education is very important. I think I understand education.

A performance is a conversation between you and an audience.

Submission is the willingness to give up our right to ourselves, to freely surrender our insistence on having our own way all the time.

You really want to know your cofounders for a while, ideally years.