I wasn't really a performer by temperament.

Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down?

Don't write naughty words on the wall if you can't spell!

Base eight is just like base ten really, if you're missing two fingers.

If I can't get people to commit themselves on whether or not there is a square root of two, then I won't touch on God or anything here

Once all the Germans were warlike and mean But that couldn't happen again We taught them a lesson in nineteen eighteen And they've hardly bothered us since then

I always like to make explicit the fact that before I went off not too long ago to fight in the trenches, I was a mathematician by profession. I don't like people to get the idea that I have to do this for a living. I mean, it isn't as though I had to do this, you know, I could be making, oh, three thousand dollars a year just teaching.