User:Hottscubbard

Favorite Quotes:

Hammersley
People do acquire a little brief authority by equipping themselves with jargon: they can pontificate and air a superficial expertise. But what  we  should ask of educated mathematicians is not what they can speechify about, nor even what they know about the existing corpus of mathematical knowledge, but rather what can they now do with their learning and whether they can actually  solve mathematical problems arising in practice. In short, we look for deeds, not words.

Thomas Mann
A writer [mathematician] is a person for whom writing [mathematics] is more difficult than it is for other people. [Adapted for my purposes!]

Johnann von Neumann
Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.