Mathematicians always like a deceptively difficult problem.

Mathematicians, like cows in the dark, all look alike to me.

— Abraham Flexner

Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians are more like classical composers.

— Brian Greene

Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Mathematicians are like lovers. Grant a mathematician the least principle, and he will draw from it a consequence which you must also grant him,…

— Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

Mathematicians are like managers - they want improvement without change.

— Edsger Dijkstra

“using SQL to search by keywords, while also making the solution both fast and accurate, is deceptively difficult.”

— Anonymous

Don't tell me this is a difficult problem. If it weren't difficult, it wouldn't be a problem.

— Ed Koch

The more difficult a problem becomes, the more interesting it is.

— Andrew Carnegie

It appears that the solution of the problem of time and space is reserved to philosophers who, like Leibniz, are mathematicians, or to mathematicians…

— Hans Reichenbach

“This quest to take a problem and see what happens in different situations is called generalizing, and it is this force that drives mathematics…

— Matt Parker

“But, as powerful mathematicians like Minkowski and Hilbert found striking harmony between their pure mathematical results and the workings of the physical world, many…

— John D. Barrow

“But she had learnt, in those solemn hours of thought, that she herself must one day answer for her own life, and what she…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

I don’t know if you have had the same experience, but the snag I always come up against when I’m telling a story is…

— Anonymous

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

— Anonymous

When you are solving a difficult problem re-ask the problem so that your solution helps you learn faster. Find a faster way to fail,…

— Aza Raskin