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“[John] von Neumann gave me an interesting idea: that you dont have to be responsible for the world that youre in. So I have developed a very powerful sense of social irresponsibility as a result of von Neumanns advice. Its made me a very happy man ever since. But it was von Neumann who put the seed in that grew into my active irresponsibility!”
— Richard P. Feynman —

“In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them. -John von Neumann”

— Ray Kurzweil

“When part of this ecosystem was lacking, such as for John Atanasoff at Iowa State or Charles Babbage in the shed behind his London home, great concepts ended up being consigned to history's basement. And when great teams lacked passionate visionaries, such as Penn after Mauchly and Eckert left, Princeton after von Neumann, or Bell Labs after Shockley, innovation slowly withered.”

— Walter Isaacson

“In the Game of Life, as in our world, self-reproducing patterns are complex objects. One estimate, based on the earlier work of mathematician John von Neumann, places the minimum size of a self-replicating pattern in the Game of Life at ten trillion squares-roughly the number of molecules in a single human cell.”

— Stephen Hawking

“John von Neumann was the only student I was ever afraid of.”

— George Polya

“John von Neumann draws attention to what seemed to him a contrast. He remarked that for simple mechanisms, it is often easier to describe how they work than what they do, while for more complicated mechanisms, it is usually the other way around.”

— Edsger Dijkstra

“He [John von Neumann] had the invaluable faculty of being able to take the most difficult problem and separate it into its components, whereupon everything looked brlliantly simple.”

— Stanislaw Ulam

“[John] von Neumann gave me an interesting idea: that you don't have to be responsible for the world that you're in. So I have developed a very powerful sense of social irresponsibility as a result of von Neumann's advice. It's made me a very happy man ever since. But it was von Neumann who put the seed in that grew into my active irresponsibility!”

— Richard P. Feynman

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