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"It could be that the methods needed to take the next step may simply be beyond present day mathematics. Perhaps the methods I needed to complete the proof would not be invented for a hundred years."
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"Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead."
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"I read about eight newspapers in a day. When I'm in a town with only one newspaper, I read it eight times."
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"Prayer: the key of the day and the lock of the night."
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"I never expected I would be connected to the Alpha male as some kind of ancillary object, and to this day it mystifies me."
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"You know how to tell if the teacher is hung over? Movie Day."
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"I need the starshine of your heavenly eyes, After the day's great sun!"
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"I read the papers every day just to discover if one mentions Anna Held."
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"I practiced for at least two hours every day for twenty years, before then I practiced maybe four to five hours a day, and before then 14 hours a day. It was all I had ever done."
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"No where to go, and all day to get there."
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"Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered."
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"Mathematicians aren't satisfied because they know there are no solutions up to four million or four billion, they really want to know that there are no solutions up to infinity."
Infinity
"I loved doing problems in school."
Problems
"Perhaps the methods I needed to complete the proof would not be invented for a hundred years. So even if I was on the right track, I could be living in the wrong century."
Living
"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."
Work
"Fermat said he had a proof."
Proof
"I had this rare privilege of being able to pursue in my adult life, what had been my childhood dream."
Life
"But the best problem I ever found, I found in my local public library."
Public
"I was so obsessed by this problem that I was thinking about it all the time - when I woke up in the morning, when I went to sleep at night - and that went on for eight years."
Time
"I hope that seeing the excitement of solving this problem will make young mathematicians realize that there are lots and lots of other problems in mathematics which are going to be just as challenging in the future."
Hope
"I really believed that I was on the right track, but that did not mean that I would necessarily reach my goal."
Goal
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