Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.

Culture is what we do together, not just what we consume.

Architecture is the thoughtful making of space.

A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.

Innovation is seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.

Short-term funding markets are the Achilles' heel of modern finance.

A good mathematician is one who can see analogies between theorems; a great mathematician is one who can see analogies between analogies.