I tried reading hilbert. Only his papers published in mathematical periodicals were available at the time. — Alonzo Church
I was an undergraduate at princeton, and I was pressed by the math department to go on to graduate school. — Alonzo Church
Never had any mathematical conversations with anybody, because there was nobody else in my field. — Alonzo Church
Well it was not exactly a dissertation in logic, at least not the kind of logic you would — Alonzo Church
The only thing that might have annoyed some mathematicians was the presumption of assuming — Alonzo Church