The job in Wisconsin was the first genuine offer of an academic job in a university which I received.

I think that after Church got his Ph.D. he studied in Europe, maybe in the Netherlands, for a year or two.

I went to Princeton in the fall of 1930 as a half-time instructor.

I went to Princeton from Amherst, where I split my interests between mathematics and philosophy.

I think Veblen had an interest in logic.

Here at Wisconsin we didn't get an undergraduate course in mathematical logic until the '60s.

In the fall term of 1933-34 I was on my family farm in Maine.

I read one or two other books which gave me a background in mathematics other than logic.

It wasn't until my second year that I got to actually work with Church.

I don't think Post often came to Princeton during the '30s. I can't remember ever seeing him in Princeton.

I'm sure Church got some of his ideas from this trip to Europe.

Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.

Books have more useful things to say than fools.

When you look at art made by other people, you see what you need to see in it.

Our goal is not to crush the enemy at any price, but to make it realize that it is illegal to take up arms to overthrow a democratically elected government.

Whether one was going to have a horse, or a dog, or a child, with that comes a great responsibility to raise them.

You don't need to buy expensive cosmetics; almost anything will do if you know how to apply it.

I think a lot of people, they don't love their jobs but they don't hate them enough to quit. So they're like, "Eh."

Have you ever felt that there was something going on in life that not everyone was aware of?

We are being ruined by the best efforts of people who are doing the wrong thing.

The ability to plan for what has not yet happened, for a future that has only been imagined, is one of the hallmarks of leadership.