Do you believe in fate, Mallory?

I like to remember things my own way.

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

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

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.