His Trunk Quotes
- With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk. — John von Neumann
- I remember my friend Johnny von Neumann used to say, 'with four parameters I can fit an elephant and with five I can make him… — Enrico Fermi
- The woodchopper reads the wisdom of the ages recorded on the paper that holds his dinner, then lights his pipe with it. When we ask… — Henry David Thoreau
- A well-judging man will open his trunk-line of study in such a direction that, while habitually adhering to it, he may enjoy a ready access… — James Fitzjames Stephen