Quotes from John Forbes Nash, Jr.

I did have strange ideas during certain periods of time.

The dollar used to be a gold standard currency. And the dollar is really good in the last century, I mean in the 19th century.

I later spent... five to eight months in hospitals in New Jersey, always on an involuntary basis, and always attempting a legal argument for release.

As a graduate student I studied mathematics fairly broadly, and I was fortunate enough, besides developing the idea which led to 'Non-Cooperative Games,' also to make a nice discovery relating to manifolds and real algebraic varieties.