Quotes by John von Neumann

John von Neumann

All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control.

Meteorology

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Unstable

Any one who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.

Humorous

Powerful

Witty

Any one who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin. For, as has been pointed out several times, there is no such thing as a random number – there are only methods to produce random numbers, and a strict arithmetic procedure of course is not such a method.

Arithmetic

Numbers

Sin

Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.

Mean

Numbers

Science

By and large it is uniformly true in mathematics that there is a time lapse between a mathematical discovery and the moment when it is useful; and that this lapse of time can be anything from 30 to 100 years, in some cases even more; and that the whole system seems to function without any direction, without any reference to usefulness, and without any desire to do things which are useful.

Desire

Discovery

Years

Computers are like humans – they do everything except think.

Computer

Humans

Thinking

I am a little troubled about the tea service in the electronic computer building. Apparently the members of your staff consume several times as much supplies as the same number of people do in Fuld Hall and they have been especially unfair in the matter of sugar…. I should like to raise the question whether it would not be better for the computer people to come up to Fuld Hall at the end of the day at 5 o’clock and have their tea here under proper supervision.

Numbers

People

Tea

I am thinking about something much more important than bombs. I am thinking about computers.

Bombs

Important

Thinking

I would like to make a confession which may seem immoral: I do not believe absolutely in Hilbert space any more.

Believe

May

Space

If one has really technically penetrated a subject, things that previously seemed in complete contrast, might be purely mathematical transformations of each other.

Mathematical

Might

Transformation

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Four

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Quotes by John von Neumann

John von Neumann

All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control.

Any one who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.

Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.

Computers are like humans – they do everything except think.

I am thinking about something much more important than bombs. I am thinking about computers.

I would like to make a confession which may seem immoral: I do not believe absolutely in Hilbert space any more.

If one has really technically penetrated a subject, things that previously seemed in complete contrast, might be purely mathematical transformations of each other.

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