“It doesn't matter how long it takes, if the end result is a good theorem.”

—  John Tate

[Steve Nadis, A History in Sum, https://books.google.com/books?id=4e29AAAAQBAJ&pg=PA207, 1 November 2013, Harvard University Press, 978-0-674-72655-0, 207]

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