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I would like to make a confession which may seem immoral: I do not believe in Hilbert space anymore.
— John Von Neumann
Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.
— John Von Neumann
If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.
— John Von Neumann
The pleasurable qualities associated with the previous ego phase, once that system is outgrown, become painful for the ego of the next phase.
— Erich Neumann
There probably is a God. Many things are easier to explain if there is than if there isn't.
— John Von Neumann
Technological possibilities are irresistible to man. If man can go to the moon, he will. If he can control the climate, he will.
— John Von Neumann
Truth is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations.
— John Von Neumann
I don't want to consider myself a TV5 favorite, but it's a blessing that I have more shows than the others.
— Mark Neumann
Accordingly, the fertility goddess is both mother and virgin, the hetaera who belongs to no man but is ready to give herself to any man.
— Erich Neumann
John von Neumann was the only student I was ever afraid of.
— George Polya
Affective reactions resulting from fascination are dangerous; they amount to an invasion by the unconscious.
— Erich Neumann
The approach of von Neumann and Connes to the use of non-commutative algebra in physics is naive, the situation is much more complicated.
— Israel Gelfand
You don't have to be responsible for the world that you're in.
— John Von Neumann
Use "entropy" and you can never lose a debate, von Neumann told Shannon - because no one really knows what "entropy" is.
— William Poundstone
I believe that marriage is between one man and one woman, the same as I've believed all my life.
— Mark Neumann
Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.
— John Von Neumann
Life is a process which may be abstracted from other media.
— John Von Neumann
Computers are like humans - they do everything except think.
— John Von Neumann
Problems are often stated in vague terms ... because it is quite uncertain what the problems really are.
— John Von Neumann
I am thinking about something much more important than bombs. I am thinking about computers.
— John Von Neumann
Personality is built up largely by acts of introjection: contents that were before experienced outside are taken inside.
— Erich Neumann
There is no point in being precise if you do not even know what you are talking about.
— John Von Neumann
When we talk mathematics, we may be discussing a secondary language built on the primary language of the nervous system.
— John Von Neumann
You cannot progress beyond you current state, with the same thoughts and actions and that brought you there.
— Udo Neumann
You wake me up early in the morning to tell me I am right? Please wait until I am wrong.
— John Von Neumann
The one thing she seems to aim at is Individuality; yet she cares nothing for individuals.8
— Erich Neumann
Pascal and C are special-purpose languages for manipulating the registers and memory of a von Neumann-style computer.
— Peter Norvig
The greatest reward lies in making the discovery; recognition can add little or nothing to that.
— Franz Ernst Neumann
Von Neumann told Shannon to call his measure entropy, since no one knows what entropy is, so in a debate you will always have the advantage.
— Jeremy Campbell
There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about
— John Von Neumann
Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
— John Von Neumann
In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them. - John von Neumann
— Ray Kurzweil
