“At some point during the lecture, I would unfailingly feel the urge to stab the point of my pen into the neck of the person in front of me.”

• Jordan Peterson
• Page 16. Maps of Meaning

All the things I “believed” were things I thought sounded good, admirable, respectable, courageous. They weren’t my things, however—I had stolen them. Most of them I had taken from books. Having “understood” them, abstractly, I presumed I had a right to them—presumed that I could adopt them, as if they were mine: presumed that they were me.

• Dr. Jordan Peterson
• Page 17. Maps of Meaning

“Algebra is the offer made by the devil to the mathematician. The devil says: I will give you this powerful machine, it will answer any question you like. All you need to do is give me your soul: give up geometry and you will have this marvelous machine.

• Atiyah, Sir Michael. Special Article: Mathematics in the 20 th Century.
• Page 7. Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society, 34 (2002) 1–15.