„Thus I have hopes of being able to achieve something of value through my current studies or with any new ideas that come in the future.“

— John Nash

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„Statistically, it would seem improbable that any mathematician or scientist, at the age of 66, would be able through continued research efforts, to add much to his or her previous achievements. However I am still making the effort and it is conceivable that with the gap period of about 25 years of partially deluded thinking providing a sort of vacation my situation may be atypical. Thus I have hopes of being able to achieve something of value through my current studies or with any new ideas that come in the future.“
— John Nash
„As you hope to prove your own great value to the state, and having proved it, to attain at once to absolute power, so do I indulge a hope that I shall be the supreme power over you, if I am able to prove my own great value to you.“
— Platón
„The idea is that you could sacrifice something of value, and that would have transcendent utility. That is by no means an unsophisticated idea. In fact, it might be the greatest idea that human beings ever came up with.“
— Jordan Peterson
„I couldn't stand the idea of a woman having to have a single pure life and a man being able to have a double life, one pure and one not.“
— Sylvia Plath