The library is the mathematician's laboratory.

Applied mathematics will always need pure mathematics just as anteaters will always need ants.

It saddens me that educated people don't even know that my subject exists.

You are allowed to lie a little, but you must never mislead.

If the NSF had never existed, if the government had never funded American mathematics, we would have half as many mathematicians as we now have, and I don't see anything wrong with that.

When a student comes and asks, "Should I become a mathematician?" the answer should be no. If you have to ask, you shouldn't even ask.

The computer is important, but not to mathematics.