Backgrounds Quote by Michael Loceff

I started programming before even being in school.

— Alexandra Elbakyan

I still think in a parallel universe, I became a mathematician.

— Ken Liu

My interests started about in science and in mathematics; I always thought I was going to be a mathematician.

— David Chalmers

I was a programmer.

— Paul Allen

By keenly confronting the enigmas that surround us, and by considering and analyzing the observations that I had made, I ended up in the…

— M. C. Escher

Plus, I was a math and science whiz from my first introduction to the subjects.

— David Crane

I was really quite geeky at school. At one point, I wanted to be prime minister or a mathematician.

— Bel Powley

Yes, I was a big math and computer geek, that's true. I was driven by the scholastic side of things. For me, it was…

— Brian Acton

When I was growing up, I knew I wanted to be a mathematician, but I had no idea what that entailed.

— Terence Tao

I always like to make explicit the fact that before I went off not too long ago to fight in the trenches, I was…

— Tom Lehrer

Early in my career, I wanted to be a mathematician.

— Jerry Buss

I was a mathematics major and really into math.

— Mary Callahan Erdoes