“I don’t think the ‘diamond theorem’ is anything serious, so I started with blitzing that.”
— Charles Matthews at Wikipedia, Oct. 2, 2006
“The ‘seriousness’ of a mathematical theorem lies, not in its practical consequences, which are usually negligible, but in the significance of the mathematical ideas which it connects. We may say, roughly, that a mathematical idea is ‘significant’ if it can be connected, in a natural and illuminating way, with a large complex of other mathematical ideas.”
— G. H. Hardy, A Mathematician’s Apology