“The only thing I fear more than change is no change. The business of being static makes me nuts.”
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Judgment is not my business. Existing is my business.
Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism.
Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.
In terms of individuals who actually inspired me, very few of the academic people that I had access to had that power over me. Maybe it's simply because I wasn't that committed to geometry.