Norbert Wiener Quotes

When I was a kid, I really liked playing chess, which is pretty geeky; I just enjoyed it - thinking, exercising my mind. And I found computers to be like an eight-hour day chess game.

Mathematics is the queen of the sciences.

... mathematics is the science of skillful operations with concepts and rules invented just for this purpose.

Mathematics is not just a language. Mathematics is a language plus reasoning.

Chess is not for timid souls.

I believe that true beauty of chess is more than enough to satisfy all possible demands.

I just think winners win. And guys who won all the way through high school and college, the best player at every level, they have a way of making things happen and winning games.

The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought.

I love speculating about solutions to problems in mathematics. I have no interest whatever in sudoku. But I do look at chess and bridge problems in newspapers. I find that relaxing.

Thinking - in particular abstract thinking, which most of us are introduced to through the study of mathematics and literature - helps us learn that we can become problem solvers.

The best thing I've ever heard another player say is, 'I hate playing against you.'

It's fine to work on any problem, so long as it generates interesting mathematics along the way - even if you don't solve it at the end of the day.

We've lost something that's been with us for so long, and something that drew a lot of us into mathematics. But perhaps that's always the way with math problems, and we just have to find new ones to capture our attention.

Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open.

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

Mathematics is one of the essential emanations of the human spirit, a thing to be valued in and for itself, like art or poetry.

Mathematicians aren't motivated by money and material gain, or even by practical applications of their work. For us it's the glory of solving one of the great unsolved problems that have outwitted previous generations of mathematicians. …. Despite all the things we've discovered over the last 7 millennia, there are still many things we don't understand.

What is mathematics? It is only a systematic effort of solving puzzles posed by nature.

My game is more a game of thinking than anything else.

I can't be getting off my game. I need to be getting teams off their games.

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

I can see that, without being excited, mathematics can look pointless and cold.

Great performers welcome pressure.

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

While all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.