Culturally, I think we have operated as if we had the formula figured out, and it was all about optimizing, in its various constituent parts, the formula. Now it is about discovering the new formula.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me?
I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements.
How thoroughly it is ingrained in mathematical science that every real advance goes hand in hand with the invention of sharper tools and simpler methods which, at the same time, assist in understanding earlier theories and in casting aside some more complicated developments.
I enjoyed like nothing else working in pure math, discovering new formulas.
The American formula things are out there but they don't have any stories to tell - we have all the stories to tell - but they're all formula.
I stray away from formulaic, the formatted.
What really fascinates me is this need that is so strong now that if you read a work of the imagination you instantly have to say, 'Oh, what this really is is so-and-so,' reducing it to a simple formula.
I don't believe you can reduce the world to a mathematical formula. I start with the world, assume it's complicated, and ask where can I get help from a whole range of disciplines.
The circumstances of human society are too complicated to be submitted to the rigor of mathematical calculation.
You know, people come up with formulas who are uncreative. They can't picture something different so they can only go by something that's laid out for them.