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.

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.

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

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

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.

The scraps of information she’d gathered knocked against each other, like balls in a pinball machine in one of the arcades on the front. Secrets drew her in every time – the unsaid.

I don't know why wicked places generally look wicked. You'd think they'd look nice, to fool people, but they hardly ever do.

Husbands don't really count ... in the miracle of birth.

Be not the first by whom the new are tried Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

Nothing reaches the intellect before making its appearance in the senses.

Life asks not merely what you can do it asks how much can you endure and not be spoiled.

You can't get closer to the heart of national sovereignty than national security and intelligence services.

I think technology really increased human ability, but technology cannot produce compassion.

Managers often hold on to resisters because of a specific skill set or because they've been around for a long time. Don't.

Some grow young, some grow cold...