Everything is numbers.
S1 E1Pilot
Here's a discussion: Why is it we remember the past and not the future?
That's a tough one, Larry.
Actually, I'm spoken for, Mr. Eppes.
Really?
Back in Madras my parents arranged for marriage to a family friend. Nice Hindu banker from Goa.
Really? Getting married?
God, no. He's a total ass.
Numbers don't lie.
S1 E2Uncertainty Principle
[On P vs. NP]
You know that it's considered unsolvable?
Well, certainly people who have failed to solve it think that.
[Don and Charlie are arguing]
I'm going to go contemplate the koi pond.
Please understand, sometimes I can't choose what I work on. I can't follow through on a line of thinking just because I want to, or – or because it's needed. I have to work on what's in my head. And right now, this is what's in my head.
I guess I was inspired by Mr. Heisenberg, just like Charlie here suggested.
Heisenberg? What do you mean, the physicist?
Yeah.
Oh. Your brother goes into a dangerous confrontation with heavily armed felons, and you prepare him with a lecture on the movement of subatomic particles.
S1 E3Vector
I've gone months without leaving the house.
How do you forgive yourself if you're wrong?
You don't. We can't be wrong.
Larry, have a minute?
Yes. Because we all have exactly the same number of minutes at all times, do we not?
Let me ask one thing. When we met just now, was I coming or going in to the library?
Larry, you were coming out.
[sighs] My memory is a memory. All right. [starts back inside]
[yells] Larry, you were coming out.
I mean, I'm just trying to get my head around the fact that my little brother consulted on an NSA issue that went high enough up for you to call the Assistant Director by his first name.
S1 E4Structural Corruption
One student even said I'm out of touch in cutting-edge thinking in multi-dimensional theory. That one alone kept me up at night.
I once had a girl in my combinatorics seminar tell me that I was disorganized and I talked too fast.
That's an accurate observation, actually.
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