Elephants Quote by John von Neumann Download Open image “With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk.” — John von Neumann ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Elephants Fit Four Parameters Trunks
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 Copy Share Image
I assume you should make room for the elephant. Boom, where I come from is irrelevant. — XV Copy Share Image
“Even the elephant carries but a small trunk on his journeys.” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Seriously, a smaller, leaner, cleaner, tuskless and more secretive elephant is exactly what is needed. It definitely would live longer. — Lyall Watson Copy Share Image
When there is an invisible elephant in the room, one is from time to time bound to trip over a trunk. — Karen Joy Fowler Copy Share Image
When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“An elephant trunk is a metaphor for a penis. But not just any penis—my penis.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
I'm an elephant today. I will need to have lots of room and also a bowl of water on the floor. — Jesse Ball Copy Share Image
Truth is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations. — John von Neumann Copy Share Image
Problems are often stated in vague terms... because it is quite uncertain what the problems really are. — John von Neumann Copy Share Image
It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful… — John von Neumann Copy Share Image
I would like to make a confession which may seem immoral: I do not believe in Hilbert space anymore. — John von Neumann Copy Share Image
There is no point in being precise if you do not even know what you are talking about. — John von Neumann Copy Share Image
The emphasis on mathematical methods seems to be shifted more towards combinatorics and set theory - and away from the algorithm of differential equations… — John von Neumann Copy Share Image
If you tell me precisely what it is a machine cannot do, then I can always make a machine which will do just that. — John von Neumann Copy Share Image
The calculus was the first achievement of modern mathematics and it is difficult to overestimate its importance. I think it defines more unequivocally than… — John von Neumann Copy Share Image
The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical… — John von Neumann Copy Share Image
Kurt Godel's achievement in modern logic is singular and monumental - indeed it is more than a monument, it is a landmark which will… — John von Neumann Copy Share Image
If one has really technically penetrated a subject, things that previously seemed in complete contrast, might be purely mathematical transformations of each other. — John Von Neumann Copy Share Image
Any one who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin. — John von Neumann Copy Share Image
I have a memory like an elephant. I remember every elephant I've ever met. — Herb Caen Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There's a place in Botswana where there are 100,000 elephants living in a single population. Think of the amount of space they need. Remember,… — Patrick Bergin Copy Share Image
Despite the reams of paperwork, obstacles worthy of a horse show, and a wait that can rival an elephant's gestation, adoption feels no different… — Scott Simon Copy Share Image
I watched a film called 'Elephant' recently. Its not stylish in the sense of expensive suits and Italian cars, but the styling on every… — Tinie Tempah Copy Share Image
'Helping industry' is the elephant pit of socialism, a deep hole with sharp spikes at the bottom, covered over with twigs and fresh grass. — Enoch Powell Copy Share Image
I returned to New Orleans and my problems with pari-mutuel windows and a dark-haired, milk-skinned wife from Martinique who went home with men from… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you've never seen an elephant ski, then you've never been on acid. — Eddie Izzard Copy Share Image
Soft fantasy worlds have a much looser cause-and-effect relationship. Alchemists can turn lead into gold and nobody wonders about how it will impact the… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
You can see the rider serving the elephant when people are morally dumbfounded. They have strong gut feelings about what is right and wrong,… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
The world is not a burden; we make it a burden by our desires. When the desires are removed, the world is as light… — Baba Hari Dass Copy Share Image
If thou art of elephant-strength or of lion-claw, still peace is, in my opinion, better than strife. — Saadi Copy Share Image