Pascal and C are special-purpose languages for manipulating the registers and memory of a von Neumann-style computer. — Peter Norvig Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of people in the world: Johnny Von Neumann and the rest of us. — Eugene Wigner Copy Share Image
Robert von Neumann taught painting, and when I finally got into a painting class of his, he reacted in much the same… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
He [John von Neumann] had the invaluable faculty of being able to take the most difficult problem and separate it into its… — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share Image
If you didn't know what you were trying to do, [Robert von Neumann] wouldn't say a word. He would just turn and… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
I see a bright future for the biotechnology industry when it follows the path of the computer industry, the path that von… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Use "entropy" and you can never lose a debate, von Neumann told Shannon - because no one really knows what "entropy" is. — William Poundstone Copy Share Image
Running overtime is the one unforgivable error a lecturer can make. After fifty minutes (one microcentury as von Neumann used to say)… — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
“It was the great Hungarian-born polymath John von Neumann who first recognized that social behavior could be analyzed as games.” — Sylvia Nasar Copy Share Image
Those two teachers [Kathleen Blackshear and Robert von Neumann] were just fantastic, I thought. They never directed you in a single direction,… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
“He was "a magician, a magician in the sense that he took what was given and simply forced the conclusions logically out… — Robert Leonard Copy Share Image
John von Neumann gave me an interesting idea: that you don't have to be responsible for the world that you're in. So… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
“If a mentally superhuman race ever develops, its members will resemble Johnny von Neumann,” Edward Teller once said. “If you enjoy thinking,… — Annie Jacobsen Copy Share Image
John von Neumann draws attention to what seemed to him a contrast. He remarked that for simple mechanisms, it is often easier… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
“VON NEUMANN MADE a deal with “the other party” in 1946. The scientists would get the computers, and the military would get… — George Dyson Copy Share Image
All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control. Describing John von Neumann's aspiration for the application of computers… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
“The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant… — William R. Miller Copy Share Image
“There is reason to suspect that our predilection for linear codes, which have a simple, almost temporal sequence, is chiefly a literary… — George Dyson Copy Share Image
It was a figure painting class, where you had a model, and [Robert von Neumann ] would wander around and he'd come… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
The two teachers that I had in the Art Institute who affected me the most were Kathleen Blackshear and Robert von Neumann;… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
“In fact, it took the resources of three countries to produce the bomb: the United States, Great Britain, and Canada. But there… — Gregory Benford Copy Share Image
“Von Neumann saw great promise in a redesign of the ENIAC computer’s memory. He believed there was a way to turn the… — Annie Jacobsen Copy Share Image
My greatest concern was what to call it. I thought of calling it ‘information’, but the word was overly used, so I… — Claude Shannon Copy Share Image
The most spectacular thing about Johnny [von Neumann] was not his power as a mathematician, which was great, or his insight and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The four had come to an exciting decision" during the six months of the blockade threatened by the authorities, they would make… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
In desperation I asked Fermi whether he was not impressed by the agreement between our calculated numbers and his measured numbers. He… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
“ Worldwide Long Range Solutions Special Interest Group [ ¤ SIG AeR.WLRS 253787890.546]. Space Colonization Subgroup. Open discussion board. Okay, so imagine… — David Brin Copy Share Image
“Von Neumann told Shannon to call his measure entropy, since "no one knows what entropy is, so in a debate you will… — Jeremy Campbell Copy Share Image
... The approach of von Neumann and Connes to the use of non-commutative algebra in physics is naive, the situation is much… — Israel Gelfand Copy Share Image
I remember my friend Johnny von Neumann used to say, 'with four parameters I can fit an elephant and with five I… — Enrico Fermi Copy Share Image
As a mathematician, von Neumann was quick, brilliant, efficient, and enormously broad in scientific interests beyond mathematics itself. He knew his technical… — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share Image
...where were answers to the truly deep questions? Religion promised those, though always in vague terms, while retreating from one line in… — David Brin Copy Share Image
“Von Neumann gave me an interesting idea: that you don’t have to be responsible for the world that you’re in. So I… — Richard Feynman Copy Share Image
There was a seminar for advanced students in Zürich that I was teaching and von Neumann was in the class. I came… — George Polya Copy Share Image
Von Neumann languages do not have useful properties for reasoning about programs. Axiomatic and denotational semantics are precise tools for describing and… — John Backus Copy Share Image
“Alan Turing’s halting problem: you can’t know if the cells will all die off without running the game until they do die… — Richard Bookstaber Copy Share Image
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![“If you didn't know what you were trying to do, [Robert von Neumann] wouldn't say a word. He would just turn and walk away. So you very quickly learned to think that you'd better be attempting to do something in that painting class.” quote by Warren MacKenzie](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/008/warren-mackenzie-4654_attempting_if-you-didn-t-know-what-you-were-trying_2054709.jpg)
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![“It was a figure painting class, where you had a model, and [Robert von Neumann ] would wander around and he'd come up behind someone and say, "Well, what are you trying to do?" And if you told him what you were trying to do, he would then proceed to discuss this with you and suggest things that…” quote by Warren MacKenzie](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/fae/warren-mackenzie-4654_attempting_it-was-a-figure-painting-class-where-you_1968927.jpg)
![“The most spectacular thing about Johnny [von Neumann] was not his power as a mathematician, which was great, or his insight and his clarity, but his rapidity; he was very, very fast. And like the modern computer, which no longer bothers to retrieve the logarithm of 11 from its memory (but…” quote by Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/854/anonymous-1_answers_the-most-spectacular-thing-about-johnny_2032971.jpg)
![“Worldwide Long Range Solutions Special Interest Group [ ¤ SIG AeR.WLRS 253787890.546]. Space Colonization Subgroup. Open discussion board. Okay, so imagine we get past the next few rough decades and finally do what we should have back in TwenCen. Say we mine asteroids for platinum, discover the…” quote by David Brin](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/cc0/david-brin-3024_next-step_worldwide-long-range-solutions-special-i_654304.jpg)
