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I listen only to Bach, Beethoven or Mozart. Life is too short to waste on other composers.
— John Edensor Littlewood
I've been giving this lecture to first-year classes for over twenty-five years. You'd think they would begin to understand it by now.
— John Edensor Littlewood
The first test of potential in mathematics is whether you can get anything out of geometry.
— John Edensor Littlewood
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.
— John Edensor Littlewood
The surprising thing about this paper is that a man who could write it would.
— John Edensor Littlewood
Before creation, God did just pure mathematics. Then He thought it would be a pleasant change to do some applied.
— John Edensor Littlewood
Well, you ought to stick with it, even after you mess up-but sticking with it is a lot easier if you have a family who believes in you.
— Kathryn Littlewood
There are so many forms, I believe people are bright enough to make their own laws, more subtle ones than we've had before.
— Joan Littlewood
Upon hearing via Littlewood an exposition on the theory of relativity: To think I have spent my life on absolute muck.
— Bertrand Russell
One person's success doesn't take away from your own.
— Jeremy Piven
The infinitely competent can be uncreative.
— John Edensor Littlewood
The first lecture of each new year renews for most people a light stage fright.
— John Edensor Littlewood
I told him just so he wouldn't be fooled by the bright lights of Istanbul into thinking that life was somehow easy.
— Orhan Pamuk
Try a hard problem. You may not solve it, but you will prove something else.
— John Edensor Littlewood
A good mathematical joke is better, and better mathematics, than a dozen mediocre papers.
— John Edensor Littlewood
Good theatre draws the energies out of the place where it is and gives it back as joie de vivre.
— Joan Littlewood
A Miscellany is a collection without a natual ordering relation.
— John Edensor Littlewood
I'm still very affected and moved by their music - maybe in a way that's different from someone who grew up around it.
— Steven Soderbergh
The referee said it was not acceptable, but the Press considered they could not refuse to publish a book by a professor of the university.
— John Edensor Littlewood
If we don't get lost, we'll never find a new route.
— Joan Littlewood
Mathematics is a dangerous profession; an appreciable proportion of us go mad.
— John Edensor Littlewood