I read in the proof sheets of Hardy on Ramanujan: "As someone said, each of the positive integers was one of his personal friends." My reaction was, "I wonder who said that; I wish I had." In the next proof-sheets I read (what now stands), "It was Littlewood who said..."
John Edensor LittlewoodI've been giving this lecture to first-year classes for over twenty-five years. You'd think they would begin to understand it by now.
John Edensor LittlewoodI listen only to Bach, Beethoven or Mozart. Life is too short to waste on other composers.
John Edensor Littlewood