Terence Tao Quotes

#1. Somehow the world survived the Nazis, the atomic bomb, and modern music

Haruki Murakami

#2. It can often be profitable to try a technique on a problem even if you know in advance that it cannot possibly solve the problem completely.

Terence Tao

#3. You will ride the Tao
toward the concrescence
and will be able to live in the light
of its anticipation.

Terence McKenna

#4. At a purely formal level, one could call probability theory the study of measure spaces with total measure one, but that would be like calling number theory the study of strings of digits which terminate.

Terence Tao

#5. Volume grows spatially slower than scaling.

Terence Tao

#6. I'm a pacifist. I don't believe in 'good' wars.

Wendy Doniger

#7. My idea of enlightenment is when ego and Tao are fused, and Tao is perceived as ego. Then everything happens with complete appropriateness.

Terence McKenna

#8. Pointing out that countless great mathematicians had tried to solve the problem and failed before you came along is in particularly bad taste and should be avoided completely.

Terence Tao

#9. We didn't make ourselves," she says. "We aren't the greatest things to exist. I can't believe that. I won't believe that. We have too many faults.

Lauren DeStefano

#10. Believe in all the good things you keep inside
There is no freedom in life without freedom of mind.

Jeremy Enigk

#11. Unsolicited surprise requests from strangers are essentially guaranteed to be met with a negative response.

Terence Tao

#12. Ultimately you should follow advice not because someone tells you to, but because it was something that you already knew you should be doing.

Terence Tao

#13. You never know when one act, or one word of encouragement can change a life forever.

Zig Ziglar

#14. Education is a complex, multifaceted, and painstaking process, and being gifted does not make this less so.

Terence Tao