You could see how money is different all of a sudden in Italy when they had the lire and now they have the euro. So they, in a revolutionary way, have gone from bad money to good money comparatively. But what about the rest of the world? John Forbes Nash, Jr. Read Quote
It is easy to say that there are the rich and the poor, and so something should be done. But in history, there are always the rich and the poor. If the poor were not as poor, we would still call them the poor. I mean, whoever has less can be called the poor. You will always have the 10% that have less and the 10% that have the most. John Forbes Nash, Jr. Read Quote
I was the most important person of the world, and people like the Pope would be just like enemies, who would try to put me down in some way or another, or the president. People are always selling the idea that people who have mental illness are suffering. John Forbes Nash, Jr. Read Quote
The ideas I had about supernatural beings came to me the same way that my mathematical ideas did. So I took them seriously. John Forbes Nash, Jr. Read Quote
Though I had success in my research both when I was mad and when I was not, eventually I felt that my work would be better respected if I thought and acted like a ‘normal’ person. John Forbes Nash, Jr. Read Quote
There are things that tend to moderate with age. Schizophrenia is somewhat like that. John Forbes Nash, Jr. Read Quote
I would finally renounce my delusional hypotheses and revert to thinking of myself as a human of more conventional circumstances and return to mathematical research. John Forbes Nash, Jr. Read Quote
I later spent… five to eight months in hospitals in New Jersey, always on an involuntary basis, and always attempting a legal argument for release. John Forbes Nash, Jr. Read Quote
I had been offered fellowships to enter as a graduate student at either Harvard or Princeton. But the Princeton fellowship was somewhat more generous, since I had not actually won the Putnam competition… Thus Princeton became the choice for my graduate study location. John Forbes Nash, Jr. Read Quote
