Frases

Wir müssen wissen. Wir werden wissen.
We must know. We will know.
David Hilbert. Speech in Königsberg in 1930, now on his tomb in Göttingen

I have tried to avoid long numerical computations, thereby following Riemann’s postulate that proofs should be given through ideas and not voluminous computations.
David Hilbert. Report on Number Theory, 1897.

The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality.
David Hilbert. Quoted in N Rose Mathematical Maxims and Minims (Raleigh N C 1988).

A mathematical theory is not to be considered complete until you have made it so clear that you can explain it to the first man whom you meet on the street.
David Hilbert

A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing.
Alan Perlis