So in the end it wasn't Gödel, it wasn't Turing, and it wasn't my results that are making mathematics go into an experimental mathematics direction, …

- Gregory Chaitin

A random sequence is one that cannot be algorithmically compressed : the shortest description of a random sequence is simply the sequence itself.

- Gregory Chaitin

In a way, math isn't the art of answering mathematical questions, it is the art of asking the right questions, the questions that give you insight, t…

- Gregory Chaitin

I think logicians hate my work, they detest it! And I'm like pornography, I'm sort of an unmentionable subject in the world of logic, because my resu…

- Gregory Chaitin

Mathematical high culture collides with pop culture and all hell breaks loose! Harris takes us on a wild ride--never a dull moment!

- Gregory Chaitin

Randomness is the true foundation of mathematics.

- Gregory Chaitin

Bertrand Russell started off as a mathematician and then degenerated into a philosopher and finally into a humanist; he went downhill rapidly!

- Gregory Chaitin

But if we play it safe, the problem is that we may be losing out, and I believe we are.

- Gregory Chaitin

As Hamlet tells his friend, ``There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.'' Well then, we must try har…

- Gregory Chaitin