I like short saying that are big on meaning. Like “I Owe you a beer.” I started thinking about this after reading an article somewhere, the basic point of which was that precision of language gives you much greater effect if you’re careful about it. When you bump into someone that you know, saying “how are you doing” is pithy and more or less meaningless. “It’s good to see you,” however, is effective and meaningful. It’s a better approximation of the underlying feeling you’re trying to experss to the person – you don’t really care “how they’re doing;” you really just want to express your pleasure in seeing them.
I need such a saying that is capable of expressing my joy and love of the wild and beautiful mathematical complexities of the world. I will have to think about this. I’m sure I’ll come up with something, but I guess any help you can offer would be appreciated. The problem you run into with those short statements is that they can lose their meaning if they’re over used. I frequently pause my thoughts to just think about how cool whatever I’m thinking about is. I suppose its possible that if I had some little phrase that I uttered to myself every time I thought such things, the phrase would become watered down and meaningless. Perhaps I’ll do more for my appreciation by just saying ‘cool, man’ instead of whatever phrase I happen to think of. Perhaps.