"The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself."

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Source : "Andrew Wiles on Solving Fermat". The NOVA Interview, www.pbs.org. November 1, 2000.

Andrew Wiles

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“What? 'Borderline patients play games'? That what you said? Ernest, you'll never be a real therapist if you think like that. That's exactly what I meant earlier when I talked about the dangers of diagnosis. There are borderlines and there are borderlines. Labels do violence to people. You can't treat the label; you have to treat the person behind the label. (17)”
“Forgiveness is a stunning principal, your ticket out of hate and fear and chaos. I know what regret feels like; I've earned my credentials. But I also know what forgiveness feels like, because God has so graciously forgiven me. Forgiveness frees you of the past so you can make good choices today.”
“The search ends with the realization that there is no such thing as enlightenment. By searching, you want to be free from the self, but whatever you are doing to free yourself from the self is the self. How can I make you understand this simple thing? There is no 'how'. If I tell you that, it will only add more momentum to that (search), strengthen that momentum. That is the question of all questions: "How, how, how?"”

Source : "The Mystique of Enlightenment: The Radical Ideas of U. G. Krishnamurti".
“Winning is what happens when commitment, desire, talent, preparation, hard work, and leadership all come together.”

Source : Tom Coughlin, David Fisher (2013). “Earn the Right to Win: How Success in Any Field Starts with Superior Preparation”, p.16, Penguin
“Everybody has that feeling when they look at a work of art and it's right, that sudden familiarity, a sort of...recognition, as though they were creating it themselves, as though it were being created through them while they look at it or listen to it...”
“Hope is a path on the mountainside. At first there is no path. But then there are people passing that way. And there is a path.”
“The dust will not settle in our time. And when it does some great roaring machine will come and whirl it all skyhigh again.”
“In my plays I want to look at life at the commonplace of existence as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time.”

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