The profuse phallic symbolism of chess provides some fantasy gratification of the homosexual wish, particularly the desire for mutual masturbation.

An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.

Mathematics consists in proving the most obvious thing in the least obvious way.

In mathematics you don’t understand things. You just get used to them.

If I had been born ugly, you would never have heard of Pelé.