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I would like to make a confession which may seem immoral: I do not believe in Hilbert space anymore.

Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.

If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.

There probably is a God. Many things are easier to explain if there is than if there isn't.

Technological possibilities are irresistible to man. If man can go to the moon, he will. If he can control the climate, he will.

All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control.

Truth is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations.

There is no point in being precise if you do not even know what you are talking about.

Computers are like humans - they do everything except think.

Life is a process which may be abstracted from other media.

I am thinking about something much more important than bombs. I am thinking about computers.

Problems are often stated in vague terms ... because it is quite uncertain what the problems really are.

Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.

You don't have to be responsible for the world that you're in.

When we talk mathematics, we may be discussing a secondary language built on the primary language of the nervous system.

You wake me up early in the morning to tell me I am right? Please wait until I am wrong.

There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about

Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.