If you're beautiful, you're led to believe that you can't also be smart.

I want girls to feel the confidence you get from being smart. They get so many messages that tell them the most important thing is to be beautiful.

A lot of girls think they have to choose between being the smart geeky type or the beautiful bimbo.

My message is: You don't have to give up being popular, fun, or fashionable in order to be smart; they can go hand and hand. Doing math is a great way to exercise your brain; being smart is going to make you more powerful in life.

Let's make math fun and sexy and glamorous. Smart is sexy, that's one of my main messages.

One of the most amazing things about mathematics is the people who do math aren't usually interested in application, because mathematics itself is truly a beautiful art form. It's structures and patterns, and that's what we love, and that's what we get off on.