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"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."
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"The only way I could relax was when I was with my children."
Children
"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
"That particular odyssey is now over. My mind is now at rest."
Mind
"The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself."
Mathematics
"I grew up in Cambridge in England, and my love of mathematics dates from those early childhood days."
Love
"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."
Mathematics
"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
"Just because we can't find a solution it doesn't mean that there isn't one."
Solution
"Fermat said he had a proof."
Proof
"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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"That most limited of all specialists, the "well-rounded man"."
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"The world system is employment."
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Personal Development
"Police officers are poorly paid for a very stressful job that has them in very high powered radio frequency (RF) fields and in a daily environment that may result in them being assaulted, maimed or killed."
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Personal Development
"A butler supplies food to nourish your body, but a writer nourishes your mind through writing."
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"I was cranked to a fifth gear, and everything I did, I did on a deadline."
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"Do not be weary to make money."
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Personal Development
"My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer."
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"Employers are at their happiest on Mondays. Employees are at their happiest on Fridays."
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"Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live."
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"Next to us is not the workman whom we have hired, with whom we love so well to talk, but the workman whose work we are."
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