Pi (1998) - Quotes

Quotes about Pi: [[John Forbes Nash, Jr.] * ], in a statement of 2006, quoted in Stop Making Sense: Music from the Perspective of the Real (2015) by Scott Wilson, p. 117

Quotes about Pi: [[mathematician; [feel; [numbers; [end; [w:Bible code|Bible code; [idea] You don't have to be a ] to have a ] for ]. A movie, by the way, was made — sort of a small-scale offbeat movie — called Pi recently. I think it starts off with a big string of digits running across the screen, and then there are people who get concerned with various things, and in the ] this ] ] comes up. And that ties in with numbers, so the relation to numbers is not necessarily scientific, and even when I was mentally disturbed, I had a lot of interest in numbers.

Sol Robeson: [[computers; [sense] Certain programs cause ] to get stuck in a particular loop. The loop leads to meltdown but just before the crash, they become aware of their own structure. The computer has a ] of its own silicon nature and it prints out the ingredients.

Maximillian Cohen: The computer becomes conscious?

Sol Robeson: In some ways, I guess.

Maximillian Cohen: Studying the pattern made Euclid conscious of itself. I had to... Before it died it spit out the number. That consciousness is the number?

Sol Robeson: No, Max. It's only a nasty bug.

Maximillian Cohen: It's more than that, Sol.

Sol Robeson: [[dead; [end; [nothing] No, it's not. It's a ] ]. There's ] there.

Maximillian Cohen: [[door] It's a ], Sol. It's a door.

Sol Robeson: A door at the front of a cliff. You're driving yourself over the edge.

Rabbi Cohen: [[Talmud; [Second Temple|second temple] The ] tells us it began 2,000 years ago, when the Romans destroyed the ].

Maximillian Cohen: What is this?

Rabbi Cohen: [[W:Cohanim|Cohanim; [W:Holy of Holies|Holy of Holies; [w:God in Judaism|God; [Ark of the Covenant|Ark of the Tabernacle; [Ten Commandments|ten commandments; [Moses; [Yom Kippur; [Jerusalem; [W:Messianic Age|Messianic Age; [w:Shem HaMephorash|the true name of God] Max, you will understand everything if you listen... The Romans also destroyed our priesthood, the ]. And with their deaths, they destroyed our greatest secret. In the center of the temple was the heart of the Jewish life, the ]. It was the earthly residence of our ]. The one God. It housed the ], which stored the original ] which God gave to ]. Only one man was allowed to enter this Holy of Holies on one day, the holiest day of the year, ]. On the Day of Atonement, all of Israel would descend upon ] to watch the High Priest, the Cohen Godul, make his trip to the Holy of Holies. If the High Priest was pure, he would emerge moments later and we were secured a prosperous year. It meant that we were closer to the ]. But, if he was impure, he would die instantly and it meant that we were doomed. The Holy Priest had one ritual to perform in the Holy of Holies, he had to intone a single word... That word, was ].

Maximillian Cohen: So?

Rabbi Cohen: The true name, which only the Cohanim knew, was 216 letters long.

Rabbi Cohen: [[God; [meant] Who do you think you are? You are only a vessel from our ]. You are carrying a delivery that was ] for us.

Maximillian Cohen: It was given to me.

Rabbi Cohen: It's killing you.

Sol Robeson: [[insanity] This is ], Max!

Maximillian Cohen: [[genius] Or maybe it's ]!

Marcy Dawson: [[gun] It's survival of the fittest, Max, and we've got the fucking ].

Lenny Meyer: [[w:Torah|Torah; [numbers; [God] The ] is just a long string of ]. Some say that it's a code sent to us from ].

Lenny Meyer: Each letter's a number. Like the Hebrew A, Alef is 1. B, Bet is 2. You understand? But look at this. The numbers are inter-related. Like take the Hebrew word for father, Ab - Alef Bet... 1, 2 equals 3. Alright? Hebrew word for mother, em — Alef Mem... 1, 40 equals 41. Sum of 3 and 41... 44. Alright? Now, Hebrew word for child, alright, mother... father... child, Yeled — that's 10, 30, and 4... 44.

Sol Robeson: [[scientific; [mathematician] As soon as you discard ] rigor, you're no longer a ], you're a numerologist.

Sol Robeson: [[truth; [world; [math] That is the ] of our ], Max. It can't be easily summed up with ].

Sol Robeson: [[Japanese; [Go; [universe] The Ancient ] considered the ] board to be a microcosm of the ]. Although when it is empty it appears to be simple and ordered, in fact, the possibilities of gameplay are endless. They say that no two Go games have ever been alike. Just like snowflakes. So, the Go board actually represents an extremely complex and chaotic universe.

Sol Robeson: [[mind] Hold on. You have to slow down. You're losing it. You have to take a breath. Listen to yourself. You're connecting a computer bug I had with a computer bug you might have had and some religious hogwash. You want to find the number 216 in the world, you will be able to find it everywhere. 216 steps from a mere street corner to your front door. 216 seconds you spend riding on the elevator. When your ] becomes obsessed with anything, you will filter everything else out and find that thing everywhere.

Sol Robeson: Number? How many digits was it? 100? 1,000? 216?

Sol Robeson: [[Archimedes; [king; [gold; [time; [genius; [water] Have you met ]? The one with the black spots, you see? You remember Archimedes of Syracuse, eh? The ] asks Archimedes to determine if a present he's received is actually solid ]. Unsolved problem at the ]. It tortures the great Greek mathematician for weeks — insomnia haunts him and he twists and turns in his bed for nights on end. Finally, his equally exhausted wife — she's forced to share a bed with this ] — convinces him to take a bath to relax. While he's entering the tub, Archimedes notices the bath ] rise. Displacement, a way to determine volume, and that's a way to determine density — weight over volume. And thus, Archimedes solves the problem. He screams "Eureka" and he is so overwhelmed he runs dripping naked through the streets to the king's palace to report his discovery.

Sol Robeson: [[order; [chaos] There will be no ], only ].

Maximillian Cohen: It's just a number. I'm sure you've written down every 216 digit number. You've translated all of them. You've intoned them all. Haven't you? What's it gotten you? The number is nothing! It's the meaning. It's the syntax. It's what's between the numbers. You haven't understood it. It's because it's not for you!

Maximillian Cohen: If the number's there I'll find it!

Maximillian Cohen: [[hands] My new hypothesis: If we're built from Spirals while living in a giant Spiral, then is it possible that everything we put our ] to is infused with the Spiral?

Maximillian Cohen: 10:15, personal note: It's fair to say I'm stepping out on a limb, but I am on the edge and that's where it happens.

Maximillian Cohen: [[marijuana; [results] Failed treatments to date: Beta blockers, calcium channel blockers, adrenalin injections, high dose ibuprofen, steroids, Trager Mentastics, violent exercise, cafergot suppositories, caffeine, acupuncture, ], Percodan, Midrine, Tenormin, Sansert, homeopathics. No ]. No results...

Maximillian Cohen: 12:50, press return...

Maximillian Cohen: I'm trying to understand our world. I don't deal with petty materialists like you.

Maximillian Cohen: [[moment; [understood; [eyes; [darkness] 9:13, Personal note: When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun. So once when I was six, I did. At first the brightness was overwhelming, but I had seen that before. I kept looking, forcing myself not to blink, and then the brightness began to dissolve. My pupils shrunk to pinholes and everything came into focus and for a ] I ]. The doctors didn't know if my ] would ever heal. I was terrified, alone in that ]. Slowly daylight crept in through the bandages, and I could see, but something else had changed inside of me. That day I had my first headache.

Maximillian Cohen: [[Mathematics; [language; [nature; [sun; [universe; [economy; [work; [minds; [life] 12:45, Restate my assumptions: 1. ] is the ] of ]. 2. Everything around us can be represented and understood through numbers. 3. If you graph the numbers of any system, patterns emerge. Therefore: There are patterns everywhere in nature. Evidence: The cycling of disease epidemics; the wax and wane of caribou populations; ] spot cycles; the rise and fall of the Nile. So, what about the stock market? The ] of numbers that represents the global ]. Millions of human hands at ], billions of ]. A vast network, screaming with ]. An organism. A natural organism. My hypothesis: Within the stock market, there is a pattern as well. Right in front of me. Hiding behind the numbers. Always has been.

Maximillian Cohen: [[see; [simplicity; [circle; [infinity] You ] the ] of the ]. You see the maddening complexity of the endless string of numbers, 3.14 off into ].

Maximillian Cohen: [[number] Something's going on. It has to do with that ]. There's an answer in that number.