Advantage Quote by Claude Shannon

You should call it entropy, for two reasons. In the first place your uncertainty function has been used in statistical mechanics under that name,…

— John Von Neumann

Use "entropy" and you can never lose a debate, von Neumann told Shannon - because no one really knows what "entropy" is.

— William Poundstone

“Von Neumann told Shannon to call his measure entropy, since "no one knows what entropy is, so in a debate you will always have…

— Jeremy Campbell

John von Neumann was the only student I was ever afraid of.

— George Polya

John von Neumann gave me an interesting idea: that you don't have to be responsible for the world that you're in. So I have…

— Richard P. Feynman

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…

— Freeman Dyson

“It was the great Hungarian-born polymath John von Neumann who first recognized that social behavior could be analyzed as games.”

— Sylvia Nasar

“The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical…

— William R. Miller

He [John von Neumann] had the invaluable faculty of being able to take the most difficult problem and separate it into its components, whereupon…

— Stanislaw Ulam

“In fact, it took the resources of three countries to produce the bomb: the United States, Great Britain, and Canada. But there was more…

— Gregory Benford

John von Neumann draws attention to what seemed to him a contrast. He remarked that for simple mechanisms, it is often easier to describe…

— Edsger Dijkstra

[A living organism] ... feeds upon negative entropy ... Thus the device by which an organism maintains itself stationary at a fairly high level…

— Erwin Schrodinger

“Alan Turing’s halting problem: you can’t know if the cells will all die off without running the game until they do die off. Thus,…

— Richard Bookstaber

There are two kinds of people in the world: Johnny Von Neumann and the rest of us.

— Eugene Wigner

I remember my friend Johnny von Neumann used to say, 'with four parameters I can fit an elephant and with five I can make…

— Enrico Fermi