Ruben Glueck

You can't work all the time in the same intense focused manner you do when you have a deadline for the same reason every day can't be Christmas.

 

Mathematics is like wine. When it changes, it only gets better.

 

Cheating solves all kinds of problems, but it never solves a math problem.

 

If you were born in 1980 then in the year 2025 you will be 45 years old and the square of 45 is 2025

 

Here's an interesting number:

710 = people surviving the Titanic disaster. This proves it is possible to overcome even the worst adversity.

 

No one would lick the outside of a refrigerator. What’s required is an education that teaches you how to open it and eat the meat inside.

 

I think if Sherlock Holmes was a real person he would love mathematics and couldn't get enough of it.

 

When you try to get something for nothing, you end up getting less than nothing for something.

 

What does it mean to be rich? A person is wealthy when he feels so much satisfaction, that when people say "Have some more" he says no.

 

Prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment guarantees that  outlaws who are good in a bad society won't be tortured.

 

If you had Superman's powers, would you be a super-hero or a super-villain, and if you were a super-villain, don't you think it would be better to be a hero without the powers?

 

A person doesn't deserve money if he doesn't make the best use of things that are free.

 

Only the physical world exists and I only understand mathematics. "exists" and "understand" are undefined terms.

 

If there were only one grain of sand in the world, and you needed it to do vital things, you would have a hard time believing that lying on the beach is not that big of a deal.

 

The reason a dictatorship is a poor form of government is because a person can only do one thing at a time while a million people can do a million things at a time.

 

Knowledge should be free and credentials should not.

 

Being in enemy territory when you win the war is dangerous. There is depression as far as the eye can see and you want to dance and celebrate.

 

We don't really want water and we don't want sugar. We want meat!

 

You must look out for your own interest. Often you will be the only one that does so.

 

There is no virtue in doing things you don't want to do. The virtue comes in doing what's right whether you want to or not.

 

When the war is over, making the defeated side suffer is just asking for another war.

 

The more people you know, the less people will judge you by who you hang out with.

 

Do not be afraid to do or say what's right. But be scared as hell of the consequences if you don't.

 

You don't estimate how long a job takes until all the problems have been solved.

 

Nature is fair. In fact, that's the definition of the word.

 

An engineer is a user with headaches. A theorist is an engineer without the headaches.

 

People that don't believe you when you're telling the truth, at the very least, are impressed by what a good liar you seem to be.

 

Selling is a delicate skill and "no" does not mean "maybe I'll change my mind". Or does it?

 

A mediocre person needs the best of everything. A really good person likes a

fixer-upper with a lot of potential.

 

The purpose of life is to enjoy yourself and don't ever let anyone tell you otherwise.

 

Does a fool try to get a million dollars? or Does a fool not try to get a million dollars?

 

There are a lot of people I don't like and I have to be nice to them. I'll be damned if I'm not nice to the people I do like.

 

Everyday problems in life aren't impossible to solve. Those problems you give up on, yes, those are impossible to solve.

 

Glenn T. Seaborg is the only person to have a chemical element named in his honor for which there is a color portrait photograph of him in existence.

 

Which would you rather be? Los Angeles and San Francisco or Washington and Moscow?

 

Trying to get what everyone wants is slightly better than just trying to get what you want.

 

Ideas are like steak knives. They can be dangerous, but it's worth the risk if you're careful.

 

A computer technician turned repair man told me he can fix my problem by burning down my house and building me a new one.

 

The universe is 13.8 billion years old and a human lifetime is about 80 years. That's 9 orders of magnitude outside actual direct experience.

 

In Africa 25 million people die of AIDS each year, a preventable disease! I've better things to do than worry about the origin of the universe.