God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference.
Reinhold Niebuhr
The object of mathematics is the honor of the human spirit.
Carl Jacobi
If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution.
Robert Sewell
A good player is always lucky.
José Raul Capablanca
We could argue that if we are pricing a complex product that is highly model dependent then the exact definition of the independent variable will be relatively unimportant compared with the choice of model.
Paul Wilmott