“Nobody listens to mathematicians.”

“Nobody ever listened to me until they didn't know who I was.”

“And so, pointing fingers become pointing guns, because nobody listens to fingers.”

“It is far more comforting to think God listened and said no, than to think that nobody’s out there.”

“Nobody really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.”

“Bex shrugged. “You think anybody’s going to listen to a bunch of scientists? No offense. But nobody has so far.””

“Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.”

“It was only the matter of a new voice. Nobody listened to an old voice anymore. Old voices became a part of one's self, like a fingernail.”

“If I had a choice, I would have wanted to be Debussy or Couperin. I listen and it is magic. I just can't understand how they conceived enchantment. I couldn't so I decided to be a mathematician, the next best thing.”

“It's absolutely ugly, but unfortunately quite true of the world today; the more money you make, the more people tend to listen to you. If you're not quoted in Fortune or Forbes or the Wall Street Journal, then nobody listens. If you say something that makes a lot of money, whether what you said is true or not, people listen.”