Complexity Quote by Dennis Ritchie

My background is in theoretical physics, and it's something very close to my heart.

— Yuri Milner

I was a mathematics major and really into math.

— Mary Callahan Erdoes

Then I started graduate school at UCLA. I got a part time research assistant job as a programmer on a project involving the use…

— Jon Postel

When I was a college student at Yale, I was studying physics and mathematics and was absolutely intent on becoming a theoretical physicist.

— James Rothman

Ultimately, my Ph.D. is in mathematical physics, focusing on quantum field theory and curved space-time, and I worked with Stephen Hawking.

— Nathan Myhrvold

After graduating in 1973 I went into the programming field.

— W. Richard Stevens

I was particularly good at math and science.

— William Standish Knowles

I spent most of my career doing high-energy physics, quarks, dark matter, string theory and so on.

— Geoffrey West

My first job out of school was to do basic research at Johns Hopkins University's applied physics lab.

— Gordon Moore

I was interested in computer programming as a kid. In fact, during my college days, I used to be a hacker.

— Vatsal Sheth

I was never strong at maths, but I eventually got onto a university physics/astronomy course, and that led on to my Ph.D. and eventual…

— Alastair Reynolds

I'm a mathematician, basically. What I do is look around for problems where I can find useful applications for mathematics. All I do, really,…

— Freeman Dyson