Von Neumann Quotes
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Von Neumann Quotes & Sayings
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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
There probably is a God. Many things are easier to explain if there is than if there isn't.
— John Von Neumann
People say I am ruthless. I am not ruthless. And if I find the man who is calling me ruthless, I shall destroy him.
— Robert F. Kennedy
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
No," he said to himself, "however good that life of simplicity and toil may be, I cannot go back to it. I love HER.
— Leo Tolstoy
Go ahead. Judge me. You have no idea what my love entails. I love two men. I fuck two men. If you think you've heard this story before, you haven't
— Alessandra Torre
John von Neumann was the only student I was ever afraid of.
— George Polya
Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.
— 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
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
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
Use "entropy" and you can never lose a debate, von Neumann told Shannon - because no one really knows what "entropy" is.
— William Poundstone
You don't have to be responsible for the world that you're in.
— John Von 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
There is no point in being precise if you do not even know what you are talking about.
— John Von Neumann
You wake me up early in the morning to tell me I am right? Please wait until I am wrong.
— John Von Neumann
Pascal and C are special-purpose languages for manipulating the registers and memory of a von Neumann-style computer.
— Peter Norvig
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
I've always been interested in martial arts.
— Tracy Spiridakos
Proper accounting is like engineering. You need a margin of safety. Thank God we don't design bridges and airplanes the way we do accounting.
— Charlie Munger
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
Clock watchers never seem to be having a good time.
— James Cash Penney
