I always like to make explicit the fact that before I went off not too long ago to fight in the trenches, I was a mathematician by profession. I don't like people to get the idea that I have to do this for a living. I mean, it isn't as though I had to do this, you know, I could be making, oh, three thousand dollars a year just teaching.
-Tom Lehrer
Select a background
More quotes by Tom Lehrer
Popular Authors
A curated listing of popular authors.