The full beauty of the subject of generating functions emerges only from tuning in on both channels: the discrete and the continuous.

- Herbert Wilf

A generating function is a clothesline on which we hang up a sequence of numbers for display.

- Herbert Wilf

For every epsilon, there is a delta.

- Herbert Wilf

In Mathematics it is always best to cheat.

- Herbert Wilf

Induction makes you feel guilty for getting something out of nothing, and it is artificial, but it is one of the greatest ideas of civilization.

- Herbert Wilf

The research reported on in our book "A=B", has moved a whole active field of mathematics from the province of human thought to the realm of computer…

- Herbert Wilf