I did have strange ideas during certain periods of time. |
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. |
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. |
I never saw my grandfather because he had died before I was born, but I have good memories of my grandmother and of how she could play the piano at the old house. |
I seem to be thinking rationally again in the style that is characteristic of scientists. However, this is not entirely a matter of joy as if someone returned from physical disability to good physical health. |
I studied mathematics fairly broadly and I was fortunate enough... also to make a nice discovery relating to manifolds and real algebraic varieties. So I was prepared actually for the possibility that the game theory work would not be regarded as acceptable as a thesis in the mathematics department and then that I could realize the objective of a Ph.D. thesis with the other results. |
I think it will prove to be a good experience. Whether it translates into games or not remains to be seen. But I think it's likely that he (Webster) did some things there during games that he wasn't doing here, like driving the ball to the basket and being a little more assertive. |
I thought of the voices as... something a little different from aliens. I thought of them more like angels... It's really my subconscious talking, it was really that... I know that now. |
I was just coming in hoping we could hold our place because I liked what I felt would be available at No. 5. Now that we are at three, we have improved our chance of getting a good player. |
I was on the mathematics faculty at M.I.T. from 1951 through until I resigned in the spring of 1959. |
I went to M.I.T. in the summer of 1951. I had been an instructor at Princeton for one year after obtaining my degree in 1950. It seemed desirable more for personal and social reasons than academic ones to accept the higher-paying instructorship at M.I.T. |
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. |
I've already had three calls today asking, 'Are you guys still ready to do business?' ... And the answer is 'Yes.' I think everybody is ready to do business. It's just that you want to make a trade that conforms to the parameters that we've set up, and those are somewhat rigid, frankly. |
If he had broken the law, or was more culpable, perhaps. It was an accident. It wasn't an intentional violation. |
It is what it is. We did at least do something that will help us in the long term. |