With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk.

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

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

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

There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about.

Kurt Godel's achievement in modern logic is singular and monumental - indeed it is more than a monument, it is a landmark which will remain visible far in space and time. ... The subject of logic has certainly completely changed its nature and possibilities with Godel's achievement.

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