Elephant Quote by John von Neumann

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

“Before you eat the elephant, make sure you know what parts you want to eat.”

— Todd Stocker

In desperation I asked Fermi whether he was not impressed by the agreement between our calculated numbers and his measured numbers. He replied, "How…

— Freeman Dyson

I wanted to have a career in sports when I was young, but I had to give up the idea. I'm only six feet…

— Jay Leno

The point of recapitulation in the first movement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony unleashes one of the most horrifyingly violent episodes in the history of…

— Susan McClary

I'm just thinking of 2001, which I think is the most expensive independent film ever made - which is great, someday I hope I…

— Michel Gondry

Reason should investigate its own parameters before declaring its omniscience.

— Immanuel Kant

Shareholders have the right and obligation to set the parameters of corporate behavior within which management pursues profit.

— Eliot Spitzer

The SF genre, of course, is really an organically evolved, marketplace-determined, idiosyncratic grab bag of themes and signifiers and characters and icons and gadgets,…

— Paul Di Filippo

I like to always wash the slate clean, and reinvigorate my spirit to be connected to the characters that I am doing. I am…

— Giancarlo Esposito

Never let anyone define what you are capable of by using parameters that don’t apply to you.

— Chuck Close

The usefulness of the models in constructing a testable theory of the process is severely limited by the quickly increasing number of parameters which…

— Anatol Rapoport