When he said someone had "died", Erdős meant that the person had stopped doing mathematics. When he said someone had "left", the person had died.

When he said someone had 'died", Erdős meant that that the person had stopped doing mathematics. When he said someone had "left", the person had died.

Mathematician need only peace of mind and occasionally, paper and pencil.

Tak perlu terlalu terang, hanya cukup ada dan tak kunjung padam.

This new world was a vicious, sleek world made of street lights and tight jeans, sharp smiles and fast cars. This was a city, edited. A city, pared down to its bare minimums, beautiful and abusive.

There are so many downsides to the message of looking for miracles.

Real smarts begin when you quit quoting other people.

I resent the implication that I'm less of a musician and a worse person for not appreciating certain works.

Nothing you say can ensure that the other person will get it, or respond the way you want. You may never exceed his threshold of deafness.

Why level downward to our dullest perception always, and praise that as common sense? The commonest sense is the sense of men asleep, which they express by snoring.

Every morning you have a choice. Are you going to be a positive thinker or a negative thinker? Positive thinking will energize you.

A win gives one a feeling of self-affirmation, and success - a feeling of self-expression, but only a sensible harmonization between these urges can bring really great achievements in chess.

His perfect kingdom of killing, suffering and pain Demands devotion, atrocities done in his name.