Business Quote by Michael Spence

I went to study electronic engineering and computer science because I was good at math and my father told me it is a very…

— Ayelet Shaked

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

— Jerry Buss

I was terrible at maths, but I could grasp science, and I used to love to read about the lives of the scientists. I…

— Francis Ford Coppola

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

— Terence Tao

When I was in college at Carnegie Mellon, I wanted to be a chemist. So I became one. I worked in a laboratory and…

— E. L. Konigsburg

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

— David Chalmers

I was, from early on, interested in science. And my parents were very obliging about that. My father used to take me to the…

— Whitfield Diffie

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

— Bel Powley

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

My mother was an economics professor. I'm proficient in math, and statistics, game theory, symbolic logic and all of that.

— Dave Hickey

I spent 10 years working on a math Ph.D., and I finally got kind of good at it.

— Jerry McNerney

I do not remember having felt, as a boy, any passion for mathematics, and such notions as I may have had of the career…

— G. H. Hardy