Study Notes Dated : 2013-02-26

Short Answer Type Questions

Question 1:
Do you believe in love at first sight?
Answer :
Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you
have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Question 2:
What do you do when you hang out with your friends?
Answer :
The bottom line for mathematicians is that the architecture has to be right. In all
the mathematics that I did, the essential point was to find the right architecture.
It's like building a bridge. Once the main lines of the structure are right, then
the details miraculously fit. The problem is the overall design.

Question 3:
What do you hope to achieve in your professional life?
Answer :
Welcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves; who, with an easy key, Dost open
life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves.

Question 4:
Who is someone popular now that you really like? Why do you like them so much?
Answer :
He who pretends to look upon death without fear, lies

Question 5:
What is something that you have gotten in trouble for at school\/work?
Answer :
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge
of its ugly side.

Question 6:
Where do you get your recommendations for what to do and where to stay when you
travel?
Answer :
Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect,
is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.

Question 7:
What do you hope to achieve in your professional life?
Answer :
Man's ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language
alone is able to express the ultimate.

Question 8:
What is the longest book you've read?
Answer :
I don't know what the future may hold, but I know who holds the future.

Question 9:
What kind of interior do you like a restaurant to have?
Answer :
I at least have so much to do in unraveling certain human lots, and seeing how they
were woven and interwoven, that all the light I can command must be concentrated on
this particular web.
Question 10:
What's the most refreshing thing on a hot summer day?
Answer :
You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages
from the best writers in the world.