Brad Stevens Quotes

I've always had a more spatial mind, mathematical, than literal.

Mathematics seems to endow one with something like a new sense.

I'm left-brained, so I'm all about a mathematical approach to language. I've always been interested in that.

There is coming an era for people with a mathematical state of mind

Plus, I was a math and science whiz from my first introduction to the subjects.

I'd rather have a pencil and paper and do all my own calculations rather than rely on a machine. And I'll do most calculations in double digit multiples as quick as the machine.

I was always good at math and science and physics.

I don't like to be negative about math because it really teaches you a lot of great things. You kind of use math every day.

Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity.

Maths is fundamentally a different process in education than it is in the real world. There is an insistence that we do maths by hand when most of it is done by computers. The idea that you have to do everything by hand before you can operate a computer is nonsense.

No sociologist should think himself too good, even in his old age, to make tens of thousands of quite trivial computations in his head and perhaps for months at a time.

I'm very left-brain.

My dad is a mathematician; I think we both have that problem-solving, looking-for-patterns way of thinking.

I think putting numbers together into a coherent framework always seemed to me to be what really matters.

I grew up with plenty of smart people. They would beat me at chess; they could solve brain teasers before I could, but then they would struggle in algebra. These were incredibly smart people who simply did not have the foundation in math that I had.

I like science and mathematics. When I say mathematics, I don't mean algebra or math in that sense, but the mathematics of things.

Math makes sense when you apply it to projects.

The math helps you have better understanding and helps you have more creative ideas, but you can't replace the creative ideas

Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical.

Although I am not stupid, the mathematical side of my brain is like dumb notes upon a damaged piano.

My brain doesn't work very well, in terms of mathematics. I'm not one of those people who can just spout off numbers for things, if numbers are thrown at me.

With me, everything turns into mathematics.

I think everyone should get a little exposure to computer science because it really forces you to think in a slightly different way, and it's a skill that you can apply in life in general, whether you end up in computer science or not.

Reason and the ability to use it are two separate skills.

Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer.