Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders.
It’s fine to work on any problem, so long as it generates interesting mathematics along the way, even if you don’t solve it at the end of the day.
Creativity is people who care enough to keep thinking about something until they find the simplest way to do it.
I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.
Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting.
