John Conway Quotes

#1. To many, mathematics is a collection of theorems. For me, mathematics is a collection of examples; a theorem is a statement about a collection of examples and the purpose of proving theorems is to classify and explain the examples ...

John B. Conway

#2. People think that mathematics is complicated. Mathematics is the simple bit, it's the stuff we CAN understand. It's cats that are complicated.

John Horton Conway

#3. You get surreal numbers by playing games. I used to feel guilty in Cambridge that I spent all day playing games, while I was supposed to be doing mathematics. Then, when I discovered surreal numbers, I realized that playing games IS math.

John Horton Conway

#4. If experimenters have free will, then so do elementary particles.

John Horton Conway

#5. It's a way of talking about lust without talking about lust, he told them. It is a way of talking about sex, and fear of sex, and death, and fear of death, and what else is there to talk about?

Neil Gaiman

#6. As someone who's been doing a lot of classical theater recently, I loved the idea of getting to run around in Steven Alan, and not be in a corset and a wig, and not have a dialect, and get to be in a 90-minute play with no intermission, and get to do real comedy.

Lily Rabe

#7. If my future were black, it was better surely to face it like a man than to attempt to brighten it by mere will-o'-the-wisps of the imagination.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#8. Much of human progress has involved reducing the time and energy, as well as the number of processes we have to engage in and think about, for each of us to obtain the necessities of life.

Barry Schwartz

#9. What is past is prologue.

William Shakespeare

#10. The Nazis victimized some people for what they did, some for what they refused to do, some for what they were, and some for the fact that they were.

John Horton Conway

#11. If you haven't lost Christ, child, nothing is ever lost.

Ann Voskamp

#12. Did you know that the state is the proud owner of a condo complex in Conway? This budget adds a real estate manager position to assess what we own, and sell those properties that we don't need and shouldn't own.

John Lynch