"Littlewood, J. E. (1885 -1977)
I read in the proof sheets of Hardy on Ramanujan: 'As someone said, each of the positive integers was one of his personal friends.' My reaction was, 'I wonder who said that; I wish I had.' In the next proof-sheets I read (what now stands), 'It was Littlewood who said...'
A Mathematician's Miscellany, Methuen Co. Ltd, 1953."