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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
- My greatest concern was what to call it. I thought of calling it ‘information’, but the word was overly used, so I… — Claude Shannon
- 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
- John von Neumann draws attention to what seemed to him a contrast. He remarked that for simple mechanisms, it is often easier… — Edsger Dijkstra
- He [John von Neumann] had the invaluable faculty of being able to take the most difficult problem and separate it into its… — Stanislaw Ulam
- 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
- All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control. Describing John von Neumann's aspiration for the application of computers… — Freeman Dyson
- ...where were answers to the truly deep questions? Religion promised those, though always in vague terms, while retreating from one line in… — David Brin
- I see a bright future for the biotechnology industry when it follows the path of the computer industry, the path that von… — Freeman Dyson