Running overtime is the one unforgivable error a lecturer…

I remember my friend Johnny von Neumann used to say, 'with four parameters I can fit an elephant and with five I can make…

— Enrico Fermi

“The four had come to an exciting decision" during the six months of the blockade threatened by the authorities, they would make the ruins…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“It was the great Hungarian-born polymath John von Neumann who first recognized that social behavior could be analyzed as games.”

— Sylvia Nasar

Robert von Neumann taught painting, and when I finally got into a painting class of his, he reacted in much the same way.

— Warren MacKenzie

“There is reason to suspect that our predilection for linear codes, which have a simple, almost temporal sequence, is chiefly a literary habit, corresponding…

— George Dyson

In desperation I asked Fermi whether he was not impressed by the agreement between our calculated numbers and his measured numbers. He replied, "How…

— Freeman Dyson

“If a mentally superhuman race ever develops, its members will resemble Johnny von Neumann,” Edward Teller once said. “If you enjoy thinking, your brain…

— Annie Jacobsen

“ Worldwide Long Range Solutions Special Interest Group [ ¤ SIG AeR.WLRS 253787890.546]. Space Colonization Subgroup. Open discussion board. Okay, so imagine we get…

— David Brin

“Alan Turing’s halting problem: you can’t know if the cells will all die off without running the game until they do die off. Thus,…

— Richard Bookstaber

He [John von Neumann] had the invaluable faculty of being able to take the most difficult problem and separate it into its components, whereupon…

— Stanislaw Ulam

My greatest concern was what to call it. I thought of calling it ‘information’, but the word was overly used, so I decided to…

— Claude Shannon

“Von Neumann told Shannon to call his measure entropy, since "no one knows what entropy is, so in a debate you will always have…

— Jeremy Campbell

There are two kinds of people in the world: Johnny Von Neumann and the rest of us.

— Eugene Wigner

“In fact, it took the resources of three countries to produce the bomb: the United States, Great Britain, and Canada. But there was more…

— Gregory Benford

“Von Neumann gave me an interesting idea: that you don’t have to be responsible for the world that you’re in. So I have developed…

— Richard Feynman