Those who say they understand chess, understand nothing.

The object of mathematics is the honor of the human spirit.

I didn’t mean to miss your birthday, baby.

Mathematics is not a deductive science - that’s a cliché. When you try to prove a theorem, you don’t just list the hypotheses, and then start to reason. What you do is trial and error, experimentation, guesswork.

Why did we spend years and years on the silly discussion of whether chess is an art, a sport or a science? Why dit it take us so long to discover that it’s a way of life?