42 A few months after Nash got out, Baumecker called the…

“I've made the most important discovery of my life. It's only in the mysterious equation of love that any logic or reasons can be…

— Sylvia Nasar

“People look to the order of numbers when the world falls apart.”

— Sylvia Nasar

“You are all my reasons.”

— Sylvia Nasar

A profound dislike for merely absorbing knowledge and a compulsion to learn by doing are among the most reliable signs of genius.

— Sylvia Nasar

“Among the students, the Phantom was often held up as a cautionary figure: Anybody who was too much of a grind or who lacked…

— Sylvia Nasar

A profile, a look, a voice, can capture a heart in no time at all.

— Sylvia Nasar

“It was the great Hungarian-born polymath John von Neumann who first recognized that social behavior could be analyzed as games.”

— Sylvia Nasar

“I thought I could save a very worthwhile person.”

— Sylvia Nasar

“Hey Nash! You scared?' 'Terrified,mortified,petrified...stupefied by you!”

— Sylvia Nasar

“several studies have since shown that basic military training during peacetime can precipitate schizophrenia in men with a hitherto unsuspected vulnerability to the illness.15”

— Sylvia Nasar

“...his condition in Roanoke is a strong testament that lassitude, indifference and the peculiarities of his thought were primarily the consequences of his illness…

— Sylvia Nasar

“James Glass, a political scientist at the University of Maryland who has studied the delusions of schizophrenia, writes, “Delusion provides a certain, often unbreakable…

— Sylvia Nasar

“RAND scientists tried to tell their wives that the decision whether to buy or not to buy a washing machine was an 'optimization problem'.”

— Sylvia Nasar

“Hopes of putting their sad history behind them was bound to be bittersweet.”

— Sylvia Nasar

“Delusion is not just fantasy but compulsion.”

— Sylvia Nasar