The Advantage is that mathematics is a field in which one's blunders tend to show very clearly and can be corrected or erased with a stroke of the pencil. It is a field which has often been compared with chess, but differs from the latter in that it is only one's best moments that count and not one's worst. A single inattention may lose a chess game, whereas a single successful approach to a problem, among many which have been relegated to the wastebasket, will make a mathematician's reputation.

Any use of a human being in which less is demanded of him and less is attributed to him than his full status is a degradation and a waste.

To live effectively is to live with adequate information.

Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions.

Am I really a good mathematician?

Any labor which competes with slave labor must accept the economic conditions of slave labor.

The best material model of a cat is another, or preferably the same, cat.