Quotes About Math Majors

#1. I was an undergrad math major and a grad student in computer science. I'm hugely introverted, not atypical of math majors.

Judith Faulkner

#2. I think we need more math majors who don't become mathematicians. More math major doctors, more math major high school teachers, more math major CEOs, more math major senators. But we won't get there unless we dump the stereotype that math is only worthwhile for kid geniuses.

Jordan Ellenberg

#3. I've done a lot of work to get where I'm at, but I have to keep working.

Wiz Khalifa

#4. Math-thinking, I would say, encourages flipping and substituting letters in words (in the novel, one of the boys double-majors in math and myth, for example, and his twin cracks a joke about the father's handwriting that morphs "cacography" into "dadography").

Mary Kay Zuravleff

#5. Churches are not museums that display perfect people. They are hospitals where the wounded, hurt, injured and broken find healing.

Nicky Gumbel

#6. Had Twitter been invented earlier, my books would have been shorter.

Tom Peters

#7. There's one sad truth in life I've found
While journeying east and west -
The only folks we really wound
Are those we love the best.
We flatter those we scarcely know,
We please the fleeting guest,
And deal full many a thoughtless blow
To those who love us best.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#8. Being able to save, make non-cash payments, send or receive remittances, get credit, or get insurance can be instrumental in raising living standards and helping businesses prosper. It helps people to invest more in education or health care.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

#9. Why should we use the Dollar even when we trade among ourselves?

Abu Bakar Bashir

#10. Everyone can be trusted. You just can't give them more than they can be trusted with.

Mikaela Bender

#11. First seek happiness from within, then you will find it without.

Ogwo David Emenike

#12. Restless thoughts are a kind of mental 'static' which must be silenced if we are to hear the whispers of our inner self.

John Novak

#13. I always seem to be singing against the grain.

Morrissey

#14. The amount of horror one used to hear about in one village could be quite extreme. But one might not have heard about all the other villages' horrors at the same time.

Sharon Olds

#15. Believe it or not, lots of people change their majors and abandon their dreams just to avoid a couple of math classes in college.

Danica McKellar

#16. Hometown is like my quilts. Sometimes when you are in sweet dreams, you don't feel it's comfortable.

Yao Ming

#17. In 1960, I enrolled in the chemical engineering program at UNAM, as this was then the closest way to become a physical chemist, taking math-oriented courses not available to chemistry majors.

Mario J. Molina

#18. ... I'm a half-empty kind of girl.

T. Greenwood

#19. You may be mentally exhausted, convinced that your nonexistent problems - problems you know are nonexistent - are draining you of all your energy.

Paulo Coelho

#20. But it is the mark of all movements, however well-intentioned, that their pioneers tend, by much lashing of themselves into excitement, to lose sight of the obvious.

Dorothy L. Sayers