Counting Quote by Gil Kalai

The older I get, the more I believe that at the bottom of most deep mathematical problems there is a combinatorial problem.

— Israel Gelfand

Once we know the number one, we believe that we know the number two, because one plus one equals two. We forget that first…

— Jean-Luc Godard

Standard mathematics has recently been rendered obsolete by the discovery that for years we have been writing the numeral five backward. This has led…

— Woody Allen

Who's counting? It was, of course, the minority who were counting. It always is. Most of the women I know today would dearly like…

— Ellen Goodman

We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must…

— Arthur Eddington

We have not begun to understand the relationship between combinatorics and conceptual mathematics.

— Jean Dieudonne

Two is not a winner, and three nobody remembers. What does it take to be number one?

— Nelly

Some of you may have met mathematicians and wondered how they got that way.

— Tom Lehrer

We have again a strange gap. We have the big scientific discoveries around the second, third century BC. Then we have an invention of…

— Garry Kasparov

I kept the fingers of my left hand crossed all the time, while on my right-hand fingers I counted anything at all—steps to the…

— Mary Karr

Math, it's a puzzle to me. I love figuring out puzzles.

— Maya Lin

I've learned that sticking around counts for something.

— Mark Lanegan