If you tell me precisely what it is a machine cannot do, then I can always make a machine which will do just that.

If you tell me precisely what it is a machine cannot do, then I can always make a machine which will do just that.

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

You don't have to be responsible for the world that you're in.

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

The total subject of mathematics is clearly too broad for any of us. I do not think that any mathematician since Gauss has covered it uniformly and fully; even Hilbert did not and all of us are of considerably lesser width quite apart from the question of depth than Hilbert.

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.