“You want to get to the top of the cliff. But that's not what you focus on immediately. You focus on the next ledge just beyond your reach, because you need to do one clever thing to get up t...”

“I have been lucky to find very good collaborators who have taught me a lot, have introduced me to several new fields of mathematics, or have shown me new insights.”

“It was traditional to not actually cash the prizes that Erdos did award while he was alive. People usually framed the cheque instead.”