"I am quite well balanced, I have a chip on both shoulders."

"Classes will dull your mind, destroy the potential for authentic creativity."

"Adequate work without innovation"

"The hubris of the defeated"

"In competitive behavior, someone always loses."

"If I could derive an equalibrium, where prevalence is a non-singular event, where nobody loses, can you imagine the effect it would have on conflict scenarios, arms negotiations….."

"You have no respect for cognitive reverie."

"Gentlemen, may I remind you that my odds for success dramatically improve with each attempt."

"I am still searching for my original idea."

"Individual ambition serves the common good."—Adam Smith

"Governing Dynamics: the best result comes from everyone in the group, doing what is best for themselves."—Adam Smith

"The best result would come from everyone doing what is best for themselves and the group."—Nash

"Do you ever ‘just know something," Dr. Nash? Constantly!"

"For some of you, this problem will take you the entire semester to solve. For others it will take your entire length of your natural life."

"Conviction, it turns out, is the luxury of those on the sidelines."

"There are certain endeavours where your lack of personal connection would be considered an advantage."

"Man is capable of enough atrocity as he has imagination."

"Practice human interaction and social comportment"

"I don’t believe in luck, but I do believe in assigning value to things."

"I’m attempting to isolate patterns, reoccurrences within periodicals over time."

"How do we know for sure? Nothing is for sure…..that’s the only sure thing I know."

"Does our relationship warrant a long-term commitment? I need some kind of imperical, verifiable data."

"I told you—attachments are dangerous."

"Sometimes our expectations are betrayed by the numbers, variables are impossible to assign a rational value."

"You should go easy—there are other things besides work. What are they? There are activities available—just add meaning."

"It’s a problem with no solution."

Wife: "Maybe the part that knows the workings for the dream, isn’t here (head) but here (heart)."

Wife: "…..I need to believe that something extraordinary is possible."

"They were wrong—No one wins."

"Good morning eager young minds."

"You are a terrible teacher!"—Nash: "I am an acquired taste."

"Everyone is haunted by their past."

(When advised on Nobel consideration) "Have I reached some level of honesty that borders on stupidity?"

(Invited to tea) "Most commercially available brands of tea are not suitable to my palette, there are some northern Indian teas that are dense enough to enjoy the flavor they have. I wonder what teas they serve here?"

Like the diet of the mind: "I just choose to not indulge certain appetites….like my appetite to imagine and dream."

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"I’ve always believed in the numbers, the equations and logics that lead to reason.

But after a lifetime that leads to such pursuits, I ask: What truly is logic? Who decides reason?

My quest has taken me to the physical, the metaphysical, the delusional and back.

And I have made the important discovery of my career, the most important discovery of my life.

It is only in the mysterious equations of love that any logical reasons can be found.