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• There was a seminar for advanced students in Zürich that I was teaching and von Neumann was in the class. I came… — George Polya
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• I remember my friend Johnny von Neumann used to say, 'with four parameters I can fit an elephant and with five I… — Enrico Fermi
• There are two kinds of people in the world: Johnny Von Neumann and the rest of us. — Eugene Wigner
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• 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
• The spectacular thing about Johnny [von Neumann] was not his power as a mathematician, which was great, or his insight and his… — Paul Halmos
• Neumann, to a physicist seeking help with a difficult problem: Simple. This can be solved by using the method of characteristics. Physicist:… — John von Neumann
• ...where were answers to the truly deep questions? Religion promised those, though always in vague terms, while retreating from one line in… — David Brin
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