The infinitely competent can be uncreative.

It is true that I should have been surprised in the past to learn that Professor Hardy had joined the Oxford Group. But one could not say the adverse chance was 1:10. Mathematics is a dangerous profession; an appreciable proportion of us go mad, and then this particular event would be quite likely.

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.

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."

The first test of potential in mathematics is whether you can get anything out of geometry.

A Miscellany is a collection without a natual ordering relation.

A good mathematical joke is better, and better mathematics, than a dozen mediocre papers.