In passing, I firmly believe that research should be offset by a certain amount of teaching, if only as a change from the agony of research. The trouble, however, I freely admit, is that in practice you get either no teaching, or else far too much.

I recall once saying that when I had given the same lecture several times I couldn't help feeling that they really ought to know it by now.

The infinitely competent can be uncreative.

Mathematics is a dangerous profession; an appreciable proportion of us go mad.

A precisian professor had the habit of saying: "... quartic polynomial ax^4+bx^3+cx^2+dx+e , where e need not be the base of the natural logarithms."

A Miscellany is a collection without a natual ordering relation.

The surprising thing about this paper is that a man who could write it would.