John Von Quotes
- My greatest concern was what to call it. I thought of calling it ‘information’, but the word was overly used, so I decided to call… — Claude Shannon
- John von Neumann draws attention to what seemed to him a contrast. He remarked that for simple mechanisms, it is often easier to describe how… — Edsger Dijkstra
- He [John von Neumann] had the invaluable faculty of being able to take the most difficult problem and separate it into its components, whereupon everything… — Stanislaw Ulam
- All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control. Describing John von Neumann's aspiration for the application of computers sufficiently large to… — Freeman Dyson