Technological possibilities are irresistible to man. If man can go to the moon, he will. If he can control the climate, he will.
John von NeumannIf 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 NeumannIf people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.
John von NeumannScience, 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 Neumann