Whatever is worth saying, can be stated in fifty words or less. - Stanisław Ulam

With sixty professors there are roughly eighteen hundred pairs of professors. Out of that many pairs it was not surprising that there were some whose members did not like one another.

I was still very hopeful that much work lay ahead of me. Perhaps because much of what I had worked on or thought about had not yet been put into writing, I felt I still had things in reserve. Given this optimistic nature, I feel this way even now when I am past sixty.

In mathematics, as in physics, so much depends on chance, on a propitious moment.