"I am not a person who can be easily categorized, and I think that is a good thing."

"To write is to remember, and to remember is to live again."

The end of history will be a very sad time. The struggle for recognition, the willingness to risk one's life for a purely abstract goal, the worldwide ideological struggle that called forth daring, courage, imagination, and idealism, will be replaced by economic calculation, the endless solving of technical problems, environmental concerns, and the satisfaction of sophisticated consumer demands.

The beauty of mathematics lies in its ability to describe the universe in a language that is both precise and universal.