"I've always been fascinated by activists, people who will devote their life to a cause, people who go to India and to Africa and put their life in jeopardy to do what they believe is right."

“The universe does not behave according to our pre-conceived ideas. It continues to surprise us.”

“I always tell myself, when I remember the non-stop self-generated hell party that used to be my life, I wouldn't be here if I didn't go there.”

“The worst days of those who enjoy what they do are better than the best days of those who don't.”

“A good conductor ought to be a good chauffeur; the qualities that make the one also make the other. They are concentration, an incessant control of attention, and presence of mind; the conductor only has to add a little sense of music.”

Source : "Rachmaninoff's Recollections". Book by Oskar von Riesemann, p. 155, 1934.

“The only thing success should do is make you more humble.”

“There are screens at the gas station, there are screens at the shopping mall. And they all need content.”

“Under the right conditions, gay people can become politicians and be in control of their lives in a much broader way through activism.”

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“It is not so much whether a theorem is useful that matters, but how elegant it is.”

Source : "Adventures of a Mathematician". Book by Stanislaw Ulam, 3rd edition. Chapter 15: "Random Reflections on Mathematics and Science", p. 274, 1991.