Von Neumann Quotes

11 quotes by 10 authors

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
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
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
Running overtime is the one unforgivable error a lecturer can make. After fifty minutes (one microcentury as von Neumann used to say) everybody's attention will… — 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 clarity, but his… — Paul Halmos
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
...where were answers to the truly deep questions? Religion promised those, though always in vague terms, while retreating from one line in the sand to… — David Brin
I see a bright future for the biotechnology industry when it follows the path of the computer industry, the path that von Neumann failed to… — Freeman Dyson

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