[COMPILATION COPYRIGHT BELONGS TO REZA GANJAVI]

Many of these were gathered with help from Dominic Vanderzypen

"In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." Bertrand Russell

 ''The routine of the job in mathematics is to be stuck!''()

"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts." (Bertrand Russell)

"Mathematics is an experimental science. It matters little that the mathematician experiments with pencil and paper while the chemist uses testtube and retort, or the biologist stains and the microscope. The only great point of divergence between mathematics and the other sciences lies in the circumstance that experience only whispers 'yes' or 'no' in reply to our questions, while logic shouts." (Norbert Wiener)

"God exists since mathematics is consistent, and the devil exists since its consistency cannot be proved." (Hermann Weyl)

"The infinite! No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man." (David Hilbert)

"A good notation has a subtlety and suggestiveness which at times make it almost seem like a live teacher." (Bertrand Russell)

"Why are numbers beautiful? It's like asking why is Beethoven's Ninth Symphony beautiful. If you don't see why, someone can't tell you. I know numbers are beautiful. If they aren't beautiful, nothing is." (Paul Erdos)

"Logic is the hygiene the mathematician practices to keep his ideas healthy and strong." (Hermann Weyl)

"As for everything else, so for a mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained." ()

"What is man in nature? Nothing in relation to the infinite, all in relation to nothing, a mean between nothing and everything." (Blaise Pascal)

"Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is

"Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths." (Bertrand Russell)

"A Mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems." (Paul Erdos)

"Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education." (Paul Erdos)

"As the light changed from red to green to yellow and back to red again, I sat there thinking about life. Was it nothing more than a bunch of honking and yelling? Sometimes it seemed that way." (Jack Handey)

virtually every information technology project above a certain size or complexity is significantly late and over budget or fails altogether; those that don't fail are often riddled with defects and difficult to enhance.            Bruce F. Webster