"A good mathematical joke is better, and better mathematics, than a dozen mediocre papers."

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Source : John Edensor Littlewood, Béla Bollobás (1986). “Littlewood's Miscellany”, p.24, Cambridge University Press

John Edensor Littlewood

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“But I said that you could still want something that is very unlikely to happen.”
“I'm a crack shot and I've won medals for shooting. But I don't think I could shoot a person.”
“We can land men on the moon, but, for all our mechanical and electronic wizardry, we cannot reproduce an artificial fore-finger that can feel as well as beckon.”
“Find joy in the ordinary.”
“You should see my baby pictures. My cheeks hung off my face like water balloons. You can imagine how often I was teased.”
“My mission is to communicate, to wake people up, to give them my energy and accept theirs. We're all in it together, and I respond emotionally as a worker, a mother, an artist, and a human being with a voice. We all have a voice. We have the responsibility to exercise it, to use it.”
“Paranoia is the delusion that your enemies are organized.”
“I think my fans respect me for bein' as truthful and honest as you can be and still be Rap music and not be opinion music. It's still Rap, its still style, flavor, flair, and people just kind of like how I present myself and the things that I do.”

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