"The act of creation is an act of resistance against the chaos of the world."

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

Mathematics is not a spectator sport. You have to do it to understand it.

"Books are the way that we communicate with the dead. The way that we learn lessons from those who are no longer with us, that humanity has built on itself, progressed, made knowledge incremental rather than something that has to be relearned, over and over."