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"I really believed that I was on the right track, but that did not mean that I would necessarily reach my goal."
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"A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder."

"Make your goals big and broad enough so that they never become answered prayers and boomerang to curse you."

"In this world, there are instruments to acquire instruments; 'here', there is the instrument to attain the Final Goal (Self Realization)."

"Goal..., let's see this year how far I can reach... and the year which is comming it will be a number above the goal number."

"Think for now.... when you reach where you wanted, think there and there and finally you will be there where you wanted."

"Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal."
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"Then when I reached college I realized that many people had thought about the problem during the 18th and 19th centuries and so I studied those methods."

"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."

"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."

"We've lost something that's been with us for so long, and something that drew a lot of us into mathematics. But perhaps that's always the way with math problems, and we just have to find new ones to capture our attention."

"I'm sure that some of them will be very hard and I'll have a sense of achievement again, but nothing will mean the same to me - there's no other problem in mathematics that could hold me the way that this one did."

"There's also a sense of freedom. I was so obsessed by this problem that I was thinking about if all the time - when I woke up in the morning, when I went to sleep at night, and that went on for eight years."

"I tried to fit it in with some previous broad conceptual understanding of some part of mathematics that would clarify the particular problem I was thinking about."

"I know it's a rare privilege, but if one can really tackle something in adult life that means that much to you, then it's more rewarding than anything I can imagine."
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