People are stupider than anybody.
It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years.
The audience usually has to be with you, I'm afraid. I always regarded myself as not even preaching to the converted, I was titillating the converted.
Be careful not to do your good deeds when there's no one watching you.
Well, you ask a silly question, and you get a silly answer.
In one word he told me the secret of success in mathematics: plagiarize; only be sure always to call it . . . research.