The first lecture of each new year renews for most people a light stage fright.

A Miscellany is a collection without a natual ordering relation.

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..."

I listen only to Bach, Beethoven or Mozart. Life is too short to waste on other composers.

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."

Try a hard problem. You may not solve it, but you will prove something else.