I was searching around online and came across this website that I've seen before. It has a database of Mathematical Quotations . You can either search by mathematician and find quotes by that particular person, much like the St. Andrews, Scotland website of Biographies of Mathematicians that allows you to go to a biography of a mathematician and at the bottom you have a link to another page that gives you quotations. OR, you can get "random quotes", there's something about math and randomness that kind of excites me. :D.
But I have, in the past, spent hours on the St. Andrews Biographies website checking out biographies of mathematicians. Mathematicians are just like other people, but when you can figure out how to add the numbers from a to b [or 1 to 100, but who's keeping track?] when you are 10, now that's interesting (reference to Gauss).
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