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.
John von NeumannThere is no point in being precise if you do not even know what you are talking about.
John von NeumannI would like to make a confession which may seem immoral: I do not believe absolutely in Hilbert space any more.
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 NeumannI am thinking about something much more important than bombs. I am thinking about computers.
John von NeumannAny 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.
John von Neumann