Mathematics ... is indispensable as an intellectual technique. In many subjects, to think at all is to think like a mathematician.

Education can be dangerous. It is very difficult to make it not dangerous. In fact, it is almost impossible.

More free time means more time to waste. The worker who used to have only a little time in which to get drunk and beat his wife now has time to get drunk, beat his wife - and watch TV.

When I feel like exercising I just lie down until the feeling goes away.

On the principle laid down by Gilbert and Sullivan that when everybody is somebody, nobody is anybody; if everybody is abnormal, we don't need to worry about anybody.

College football: I do not see the relationship of those highly industrialized affairs on Saturday afternoons to higher learning in America.

A civilization in which there is not a continuous controversy about important issues is on the way to totalitarianism and death