John Edensor Littlewood

"To illustrate to what extent Hardy and Littlewood in the course of the years came to be considered as the leaders of recent English mathematical research, I may report what an excellent colleague once…"

"I recall once saying that when I had given the same lecture several times I couldn't help feeling that they really ought to know it by now."

"I read in the proof-sheets of Hardy on Ramanujan: 'As someone said, each of the positive integers was one of his personal friends.' My reaction was, 'I wonder who said that; I wish I had.' In the next…"

"It was Mr. Littlewood who remarked that "every positive integer was one of his personal friends."

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

"'The surprising thing about this paper is that a man who could write it--would.'"