"A mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems."
— Mathematicians

January 1, 1970

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Popularly attributed to Paul Erdős, who was quoting Alfréd Rényi (Bruce Schechter, My Brain Is Open: The Mathematical Journeys of Paul Erdős, 1998, New York: Simon & Schuster, ).