John Nash Quotes (28 Quotes)

I studied mathematics fairly broadly and I was fortunate enough... also to make a nice discovery relating to manifolds and real algebraic varieties. So I was prepared actually for the possibility that the game theory work would not be regarded as acceptab

We will not tolerate this type of behavior from any player, ... We will continue to demand a higher level of professionalism and personal responsibility from all of our players or we will continue to take appropriate action.

I thought of the voices as... something a little different from aliens. I thought of them more like angels... It's really my subconscious talking, it was really that... I know that now.

Bluefield, a small city in a comparatively remote geographical location in the Appalachians, was not a community of scholars or of high technology.

While I was on the academic sabbatical of 1956-1957, I also entered into marriage. Alicia had graduated as a physics major from M.I.T. where we had met, and she had a job in the New York City area. She had been born in El Salvador but came at an early age to the U.S., and she and her parents had long been U.S. citizens, her father being an M.D. and ultimately employed at a hospital operated by the federal government in Maryland.

That talk is ridiculous. Those are the same people who said Chauncey Billups was a bust. The fact is, it takes a while in the NBA, and it takes a while to make the transition from high school. The bottom line is, when we drafted him, there wasn't any commitment to play him in his rookie year, he was going to sit and learn from the veterans. Yet, somehow he forced his way onto the floor through way of practices. And this year, there was no commitment to start him, but somehow he won the starting job. Then he got injured.

A year ago when we started, we weren't ready yet. But today we are in operation. We are ready, willing and able to find a place for you to go,

Sam has demonstrated a toughness and tenacity at the college level in the CBA, as well as in Europe, ... He will add to the intensity of our training camp and practice sessions.

These moves provide our organization some salary cap flexibility. While helping balance the roster, today's trade adds another big man and gives us a player who is a proven shooter in this league.

I've already had three calls today asking, 'Are you guys still ready to do business' ... And the answer is 'Yes.' I think everybody is ready to do business. It's just that you want to make a trade that conforms to the parameters that we've set up, and those are somewhat rigid, frankly.

Now I must arrive at the time of my change from scientific rationality of thinking into the delusional thinking characteristic of persons... But I will not really attempt to describe this long period of time but rather avoid embarrassment by simply omitting to give the details of truly personal type.

My beginning as a legally recognized individual occurred on June 13, 1928, in Bluefield, West Virginia, in the Bluefield Sanitarium, a hospital that no longer exists.

Patterson has been placed on the inactive list and sent home to Portland for the rest of this (seven-game) road trip for his behavior, both on and off the court,

Drafted out of high school a year ago, this 6-foot-9 small forward was so raw he barely got off the bench in Portland last season and most of this year as well. Now he's getting a chance to play as part of the Blazers' late-season youth movement, and he's been impressive. Over his past 11 games Outlaw has averaged 11 points (on 56.6 percent shooting) and four rebounds in just 24 minutes per game while playing solid defense. He's been a real pleasant surprise, ... His medium-range jumper has definitely improved. He's a good defender who will block shots at the small forward position. He's further along than we anticipated.

Ruben has made it clear that he didn't want to be here. It was probably not a good fit for Ruben to be here right now.

My parents provided an encyclopedia, Compton's Pictured Encyclopedia, that I learned a lot from by reading it as a child.

Given the direction of the team and Derek's limited availability in recent years, we felt this was the best solution for all parties, ... This move gives us additional cap flexibility and minutes for our younger players.

The mental disturbances originated in the early months of 1959, at a time when Alicia happened to be pregnant. And as a consequence I resigned my position as a faculty member at M.I.T. and, ultimately... travelled to Europe and attempted to gain status there as a refugee.

We are very pleased that the Wizards did not match and that Steve Blake is now part of the Trail Blazers family, ... As we said when we signed him to the offer sheet, Steve has competed at the highest level in college culminated by his experience at Maryland and winning a National Championship. With his two seasons at Washington, he adds to the limited experience of a young team and we know he will bring additional energy and enthusiasm to our training camp

One aspect of this is that rationality of thought imposes a limit on a person's concept of his relation to the cosmos.

I also did electrical and chemistry experiments at that time. At first, when asked in school to prepare an essay about my career, I prepared one about a career as an electrical engineer like my father. Later, when I actually entered Carnegie Tech. in Pittsburgh, I entered as a student with the major of chemical engineering.

We provide fantastic services for the community. In order to keep it going, we need to find a way to continue funding,

Our players liked Mo a great deal, but sometimes a fresh voice might ignite them to go in a different direction.

He's capable of doing it. He's got to be comfortable physically, and then he's got to be comfortable with the system. I think both the surgery and the new system have probably been a big adjustment for him.

Nash lost one potential trade asset last month when center Arvydas Sabonis decided to retire. With a year and 6 million left on his contract, Sabonis could have been bait to teams seeking cap relief next summer. We had some fairly attractive offers, ... But they were for players with long-term contracts that weren't worth it in the long run.

These moves provide our organization with some salary cap flexibility.

By the time I was a student in high school... I remember succeeding in proving the classic Fermat theorem about an integer multiplied by itself p times where p is a prime.

The mathematics faculty were encouraging me to shift into mathematics as my major and explaining to me that it was not almost impossible to make a good career in America as a mathematician. So I... became officially a student of mathematics. And in the end I had learned and progressed so much in mathematics that they gave me an M.S. in addition to my B.S. when I graduated.