Quotes About Alexander Grothendieck

#1. Fertility is measured by offspring, not by honours.

Alexander Grothendieck

#2. It's your way of fighting. You refuse to engage and then you can't lose.

Christine Feehan

#3. I am not really doing research, just trying to cultivate myself.

Alexander Grothendieck

#4. What separates design from art is that design is meant to be... functional.

Cameron Moll

#5. When I was younger, all I cared about was what people thought of me and my films. Now I care less about catering, hand-serving, hand-feeding the audience. I've gotten to the point now in my life where I'm serving myself.

Steven Spielberg

#6. Discovery is the privilege of the child: the child who has no fear of being once again wrong, of looking like an idiot, of not being serious, of not doing things like everyone else.

Alexander Grothendieck

#7. You like me, You really like me!!!

Sally Field

#8. And I would be the first to admit that probably, in a lot of press conferences over the time that I have been in coaching, indulging my own sense of humor at press conferences has not been greatly to my benefit.

Robert Montgomery Knight

#9. No fool can play chess, and only fools do.

Marc Lowrance

#10. Among the thousand-and-one faces whereby form chooses to reveal itself to us, the one that fascinates me more than any other, and continues to fascinate me, is the structure hidden in mathematical things.

Alexander Grothendieck

#11. The introduction of the cipher 0 or the group concept was general nonsense too, and mathematics was more or less stagnating for thousands of years because nobody was around to take such childish steps ...

Alexander Grothendieck

#12. Yeah I do and I don't mind, in fact that is one of the real encouraging things about this whole career of mine is that there are tunes I wrote almost thirty years ago that I will still play in front of an audience and I still like the old tunes.

Leo Kottke

#13. I was directing before I knew it was called that.

Guillermo Del Toro