People’s sex habits are as well known in Hollywood as their political opinions, and much less criticized.

Those three years ended with June 1933. At that time I left Princeton, having submitted my Ph.D. thesis.

We are going to make sure that there is high-speed broadband available to everyone, and affordable to people historically kept out of it. It means they have not just access, but can also understand how...

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

There’s only one law you gotta follow to keep outta trouble. Do it first, do it yourself, and keep on doin’ it.

Well, I think Barkley and I were the only two who were working with Church for a Ph.D.

To live effectively is to live with adequate information.

I returned to Princeton with a research assistantship on February 7, 1934, and remained there through the academic year 1934-35.

Love is a hole in the heart.

When I got to Princeton I made a point of attending the Philosophy Club and listening to the lectures, but I didn’t get involved in any discussions in those clubs. I guess after the first...

The idea that information can be stored in a changing world without an overwhelming depreciation of its value is false. It is scarcely less false than the more plausible claim that after a war we...

I suppose Church’s course had six or eight people in it, but I can’t remember the name of even another one of them now. None of them went into logic.

A man nearly always loves for other reasons than he thinks. A lover is apt to be as full of secrets from himself as is the object of his love from him.

What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead.

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

In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

And what I learned in Church’s course. He trained us intensively in his new system, which he was just developing. Two papers were presented. I think the second paper wasn’t published until well after the...

I think Veblen had an interest in logic.

I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they are both looking for alms from me, the rich man for the alms of my...

As I say, there was this movement to try to bring philosophers and mathematicians together into an organization where they would talk to each other. An organization wasn’t effective unless you had a journal. That’s...

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

Listen, little boy. In this business, there’s only one law you gotta follow to keep outta trouble. Do it first, do it yourself, and keep on doin’ it.

For example, the philosophers who were interested in logic were probably rather logical for mathematicians. But the ASL got us together, so we could talk to each other and publish in the same journal.

Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.

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

Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.

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

Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.

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

Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravos.

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

Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required no more effort than a game of pinochle.

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

In Hollywood, a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel.

I had a liberal arts education at Amherst College where I had two majors, mathematics and philosophy.

I have written a raucous valentine to a poet’s dream and agony.

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

I discovered early in my movie work that a movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it. There are times when this distinction may be given to the writer or director....

I had some hesitations about philosophy because, if you worked out a philosophical theory, it was hard to know whether you were going to be able to prove it or whether other theories had just...