Technological possibilities are irresistible to man. If man can go to the moon, he will. If he can control the climate, he will.

Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.

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

It is just as foolish to complain that people are selfish and treacherous as it is to complain that the magnetic field does not increase unless the electric field has a curl. Both are laws of nature.

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.

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

You wake me up early in the morning to tell me I am right? Please wait until I am wrong.