One of the chief duties of the mathematician in acting as an advisor ... is to discourage ... from expecting too much from mathematics.

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

Scientific discovery consists in the interpretation for our own convenience of a system of existence which has been made with no eye to our convenience at all.

Just as entropy is a measure of disorganization, the information carried by a set of messages is a measure of organization. In fact, it is possible to interpret the information carried by a message as essentially the negative of its entropy, and the negative logarithm of its probability. That is, the more probable the message, the less information it gives. Cliches, for example, are less illuminating than great poems.

A professor is one who can speak on any subject - for precisely fifty minutes.

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.

Am I really a good mathematician?