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You don't have to be responsib...

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

John Neumann 31 quotes

You insist that there is somet...

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

John Neumann 31 quotes

The total subject of mathemati...

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.

John Neumann 31 quotes

All stable processes we shall ...

All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control.

John Neumann 31 quotes

There is no point in being pre...

There is no point in being precise if you do not even know what you are talking about.

John Neumann 31 quotes

It is exceptional that one sho...

It is exceptional that one should be able to acquire the understanding of a process without having previously acquired a deep familiarity with running it, with using it, before one has assimilated it in an instinctive and empirical way... Thus any discussion of the nature of intellectual effort in any field is difficult, unless it presupposes an easy, routine familiarity with that field. In mathematics this limitation becomes very severe.

John Neumann 31 quotes

I am thinking about something ...

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

John Neumann 31 quotes

Computers are like humans - th...

Computers are like humans - they do everything except think.

John Neumann 31 quotes

Problems are often stated in v...

Problems are often stated in vague terms... because it is quite uncertain what the problems really are.

John Neumann 31 quotes

Science, as well as technology...

Science, 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 Neumann 31 quotes

Technological possibilities ar...

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

John Neumann 31 quotes

You wake me up early in the mo...

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

John Neumann 31 quotes

I am a little troubled about t...

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.

John Neumann 31 quotes

Any one who considers arithmet...

Any 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 numberЂ' there are only methods to produce random numbers, and a strict arithmetic procedure of course is not such a method.

John Neumann 31 quotes

Kurt Godel's achievement in mo...

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.

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With four parameters I can fit...

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

John Neumann 31 quotes

Anyone who considers arithmeti...

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

John Neumann 31 quotes

It is just as foolish to compl...

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.

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Life is a process which may be...

Life is a process which may be abstracted from other media.

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By and large it is uniformly t...

By and large it is uniformly true that in mathematics there is a time lapse between a mathematical discovery and the moment it becomes useful; and that this lapse 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.

John Neumann 31 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

Мэрилин Монро, Ким Кардашьян и другие

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....