A good theory fits on a T-shirt.
Quotes
Stephenson, Cryptonomicon
We’re all so used to working in a purely abstract realm that it seems almost bizarre to go out into the real world and physically do something.
Root just felt like talking about words. The SAS blokes refer to this kind of activity as wanking.
Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker’s game because they almost always turn out to be – or to be indistinguishable from – self-righteous sixteen-years-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time.
But this is a degenerate case, where “degenerate”, to a mathematician, means “annoyingly boring”.
Willa Cather
The test of one’s decency is how much of a fight one can put up after one has stopped caring, and after one has found out that one can never please the people they wanted to please.
Saul Bellow
You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.
Donald Knuth
Science is anything we understand well enough to explain it to a computer.
Bach
Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.