"There is something to complete in this demonstration. I do not have the time."

- Evariste Galois, in a note on the margin of a manuscript of a mathematical proof, 29 May 1832, a day before being found dead - killed in a duel over a failed love affair, five months short of turning 21. Mathematician, Galois theory - abstract algebra.

Source: Businessworld, January 2006 issue.