Pierre Deligne quotes

“Je serais reconnaissant a toute personne ayant compris cette demonstration de me l'expliquer.”
-- Pierre Deligne

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“All problems in mathematics are psychological.”
-- Pierre Deligne

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“Animal cruelty is one of the most unfortunate and barbaric demonstrations of human beings manipulating ill conceived notions of ‘power’ over other species.”

“One is a socialist because one used to be one, no longer going to demonstrations, attending meetings, sending in one's dues, in short, without paying.”

Source : Michel de Certeau (2011). “The Practice of Everyday Life”, p.177, Univ of California Press

“I beg you not to resort to demonstrations, for they have become nothing but burned paper.”

“I have a truly marvellous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.”

“Mathematical reasoning may be regarded...”

“I never use a computer.”

“I knew that he was as reliable as a mathematical formula.”

“When I give this talk to a physics audience, I remove the quotes from my 'Theorem'.”

“If you had done something twice, you are likely to do it again.”

Source : Brian W. Kernighan, Rob Pike (1984). “The UNIX Programming Environment”, Prentice Hall

“There is a mathematical formula to why you got famous. It isn’t some magical thing that just started happening.”