taken while waiting for my subway sandwich at the UMC. 

"The mathematician’s patterns, like the painter’s or the poet’s must
be beautiful; the ideas like the colours or the words, must fit
together in a harmonious way. Beauty is the first test: there is no
permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics. "

"It does indeed have something to do with faith," she said, "faith
that the universe has meaning, that our little human lives are not
irrelevant, that what we choose or say or do matters, matters
cosmically."

-NYT 9/8/2007

Benny could do this all day. And I could watch Benny doing this all day.