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"There should be no such thing as boring mathematics."
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"I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way."
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"The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself."
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"Mathematics doesn't care about those beyond the numbers."
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"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."
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"My mathematics is simple: one plus one = one."
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"There should be no such thing as boring mathematics."
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"In my schooling through high school, I excelled mainly in chemistry, physics and mathematics."
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""Obvious" is the most dangerous word in mathematics."
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"I was fortunate to find an extraordinary mathematics and applied mathematics program in Toronto."
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"Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper."
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"Teaching to unsuspecting youngsters the effective use of formal methods is one of the joys of life because it is so extremely rewarding."
Life
"The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges."
Suspicion
"Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning."
Learning
"Don't compete with me: firstly, I have more experience, and secondly, I have chosen the weapons."
Experience
"If 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to yourself: 'Dijkstra would not have liked this', well that would be enough immortality for me."
Immortality
"Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability."
Simplicity
"There should be no such thing as boring mathematics."
Mathematics
"Why has elegance found so little following? That is the reality of it. Elegance has the disadvantage, if that's what it is, that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it."
Education
"It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration."
Hope
"Many mathematicians derive part of their self-esteem by feeling themselves the proud heirs of a long tradition of rational thinking; I am afraid they idealize their cultural ancestors."
Feelings
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