If you desperately need a job, you are just another problem for a boss; if you can solve many of the problems the boss has right now, you are hired. To be hired, think like your boss.
Mathematics is not a careful march down a well-cleared highway, but a journey into a strange wilderness, where the explorers often get lost.
Innovation in traditional industries like coal mining is not just possible—it's essential.
"The more you try to forget, the more you remember."