Science, as well as technology, will in the near and in the farther future increasingly turn from problems of intensity, substance, and energy, to problems of structure, organization, information, and control.
John von NeumannYou wake me up early in the morning to tell me I am right? Please wait until I am wrong.
John von NeumannIf people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.
John von NeumannAny one who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.
John von NeumannThe sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical construct which, with the addition of certain verbal interpretations, describes observed phenomena. The justification of such a mathematical construct is solely and precisely that it is expected to work-that is, correctly to describe phenomena from a reasonably wide area.
John von Neumann