I was on the mathematics faculty at M.I.T. from 1951 through until I resigned in the spring of 1959. John Forbes Nash, Jr. Read Quote
As a graduate student I studied mathematics fairly broadly, and I was fortunate enough, besides developing the idea which led to ‘Non-Cooperative Games,’ also to make a nice discovery relating to manifolds and real algebraic varieties. John Forbes Nash, Jr. Read Quote
Of course, the American education system is very inefficient in many ways compared to other countries in Europe or Japan, but it works in such a way that at least the few people who are going onto unusual careers and science can manage to get into that, even though they go through an earlier stage that doesn’t give them much. John Forbes Nash, Jr. Read Quote
I know that if I could really understand mental illness, then it would be appropriate to make a big career shift. I would become a therapist and a leader in terms of mental illness. But I’m not in the position. John Forbes Nash, Jr. Read Quote
I don’t think exactly like a professional economist. I think about economics and economic ideas, but somewhat like an outsider. John Forbes Nash, Jr. Read Quote
To some extent, people who are insane are nonconformists, and society and their family wish they would live what appear to be useful lives. John Forbes Nash, Jr. Read Quote
If things are not so good, you may be one to imagine something better. For me, I was able to imagine myself as in a role of greater importance than I would seem to be ordinarily. John Forbes Nash, Jr. Read Quote
It has had a tremendous impact on my life, more than on the life of most Prize winners, because I was in an unusual situation. I was unemployed at the time. I was in good health, but I had reached the age of 66 and beginning to get social security, but I didn’t have much of that. I had many years of unemployment before me. John Forbes Nash, Jr. Read Quote
It’s almost as if a demon might have passed from one host to another. John Forbes Nash, Jr. Read Quote
The dollar used to be a gold standard currency. And the dollar is really good in the last century, I mean in the 19th century. John Forbes Nash, Jr. Read Quote
