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John Forbes Nash Jr

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

John Forbes Nash Jr

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

John Forbes Nash Jr

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

John Forbes Nash Jr

I went to M.I.T. in the summer of 1951 as a ‘C.L.E. Moore Instructor.’ 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.

– John Forbes Nash, Jr

John Forbes Nash Jr

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

John Forbes Nash Jr

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

John Forbes Nash Jr

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.

– John Forbes Nash, Jr

John Forbes Nash Jr

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

John Forbes Nash Jr

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

John Forbes Nash Jr

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

John Forbes Nash Jr

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.

– John Forbes Nash, Jr

John Forbes Nash Jr

It’s almost as if a demon might have passed from one host to another.

– John Forbes Nash, Jr

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