Quotes

I liked the following quotes and collected them here, in no particular order.

• “Whoever thinks his problem can be solved using cryptography doesn’t understand his problem and doesn’t understand cryptography.” ‒ Attributed by Roger Needham and Butler Lampson to each other
• “No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.” - J. Robert Oppenheimer
• “You keep on learning and learning, and pretty soon you learn something no one has learned before.” - Richard Feynman
• “A man’s first duty, a young man’s at any rate, is to be ambitious.” - G. H. Hardy
• “Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.” - Malcolm Forbes
• “Lead us to the good path and remove the sin that makes us stray and wander.” - Yajurveda
• “Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.” – Robert A. Heinlein
• “All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, then success is sure.” - Mark Twain
• “A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.” - Alan Turing
• “Be alone, that is the secret of invention. Be alone, that is when ideas are born.” - Nikola Tesla.
• “One of the biggest problems with the world is that fools are always so sure and certain about everything and intelligent people are so full of doubts and uncertainties.” - Bertrand Russell
• “If you are confident that you can do something, you will do it” - Giorgio Parisi (Nobel prize winner in Physics, 2021).
• “The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.” — C.S. Lewis
• “It’s a good idea to expose your mind to different kinds of subjects for the fun of it, because you can never tell when they’ll find a way to the forefront of your thoughts and effect a breakthrough.” - Vishy Anand (in his book ‘Mindmaster’)
• “An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.” – Niels Bohr
• If the proof is correct then no other recognition is needed. - Grigori Perelman
• “Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn’t matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough.” - Richard Feynman
• “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” -Anais Nin
• “To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived, this is to have succeeded.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.” ― Albert Einstein
• “Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.” - Abraham Lincoln
• “The beauty of mathematics only shows itself to more patient followers.” - Maryam Mirzakhani (1977 - 2017)