Von Quotes

63 quotes by 60 authors

I created the role of Captain Von Trapp. — Theodore Bikel
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe31. The best revenge… — Frank Sinatra
Hear it when i get biz for K-Von, I'm pledgin, died, on 104 Northern Boulevard corona queens legend — Kool G Rap
He's a bootlegger....One time he killed a man who found out that he was nephew to Von Hindenburg and second cousin to the devil. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
No wonder that Churchill described this effort [the British codebreakers working at Bletchley Park] as "Britian"s secret weapon," a weapon far more effective than the… — Peter Hilton
There was a seminar for advanced students in ZÃ¼rich that I was teaching and von Neumann was in the class. I came to a certain… — George Polya
Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiss nichts von seiner eigenen.He who is ignorant of foreign languages, knows not his own. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Wig Out At Jagbags is inspired by Cologne, Germany, Mark Von Schlegell, Rosemarie Trockel, Von Spar and Jan Lankisch, Can and Gas; Stephen-Malkmus-imagined Weezer/Chili Peppers,… — Stephen Malkmus
Library of the Works of Ludwig von Misesâ€. Here is an article he wrote in 1951, some two years after his magnum opus Human Action… — Ludwig von Mises
Das immer gegenwÃ¤rtige Zufallselement im kÃ¼nstlerischen ErzeugungsprozeÃŸ erfaÃŸt die generative Graphik modellmÃ¤ÃŸig durch den Einbau von Zufallsgeneratoren in die Programme. [. . .] Die Zufallsgeneratoren… — Georg Nees
My greatest concern was what to call it. I thought of calling it â€˜informationâ€™, but the word was overly used, so I decided to call… — Claude Shannon
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
My only supporter and comrade-in-arms was Georg Helm, who had endeavored to formulate an energetic conception of science before me and had presented his results… — Wilhelm Ostwald
Purely sensual love is never true or lasting, for which reason first love is, as a rule, but a passing infatuation, a fleeting passion. -… — Richard von Krafft-Ebing
At George Mason University I saw Hoppe present a lecture in which he claimed that Ludwig von Mises had set the intellectual foundation for not… — Tom G. Palmer
I can't resist telling you that when the Vienna Economics Institute celebrated its centennial, many years ago, they invited, as their keynote speaker, my father… — James K. Galbraith
There are two kinds of people in the world: Johnny Von Neumann and the rest of us. — Eugene Wigner
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
E=mc2. Energy equals mass times the speed of light squared. The original statement is: If a body gives off the energy L in the form… — Albert Einstein

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