John von Neumann Quotes

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

John von Neumann

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• It was my fortune, or misfortune, to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political training.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Political
  • Training
  • Office

• There's something so quirky and fun and nerdy about the Tony Awards... We're dorks being silly up there.

  

  Barrett Foa
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Silly

• We thought about it, what we want to tell, and I didn't want to move it directly into the Nazi times. I thought it's much more interesting to see how BloodRayne became BloodRayne.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • Want
  • Interesting
  • Thought

• My father used to administer herbal medicine for free. But I can't give drugs for free. So the next best thing is to give it at as low a price as possible.

  

  Kallam Anji Reddy
  • Father
  • Free
  • Best

• I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Say
  • Knowing

• The difference between us is that we're using missile defense to protect our civilians and they're using their civilians to protect their missiles.

  

  Benjamin Netanyahu

• All those angry, uneducated Trump supporters seemed to understand what his policies were. They figured it out by listening to him. It was only fair. No one listened to Trump, except the voters; and no one listened to the voters, except Trump.

  

  Ann Coulter
  • Listening
  • Trump
  • Angry

• I call white the most powerful non-color; it's clean, optimistic, powerful.

  

  Jason Wu
  • Powerful
  • Color
  • Optimistic

• I'm a compulsive storyteller, an avid reader, and have always nurtured the secret goal of spending my life as a writer.

  

  Astro Teller
  • Life

• We account for one-sixth of the forces of gravity we see in the universe. There is no known objects accounting for most of the effective gravity in the universe. Something is making stuff move that is not anything we have ever touched.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Universe

• I think the greatest of people in society carved niches that represented the unique expression of their combinations of talents, and if everyone had the luxury of expressing the unique combinations of talents in this world, our society would be transformed overnight.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • People
  • World
  • Society

• One culture I find fascinating to juxtapose against American culture is the culture of Germany. They've gone through a long process through their art, poetry, public discourse, their politics, of owning the fact of their complicity in what happened in World War II. It's still a topic of everyday conversation in Germany.

  

  Chris Jordan
  • World
  • Long
  • Art

• As an actor I've been attracted to the sort of films that I want to go and see. That tends to usually be drama-related.

  

  Eric Bana
  • Drama

• There's no substitute for experiencing ups and downs - seeing how it's okay that things are overwhelming or broken sometimes and how companies recover from mistakes.

  

  Joe Lonsdale
  • Broken

• I was a singing guitar player as a kid, and I found it really embarrassing, so I stopped singing and became a drummer.

  

  James Murphy
  • Player
  • Singing

• I hate the Chinese government. If you do not want to embrace North Korean defectors in your country, I understand. But we have a country where we can seek asylum. So please, let us freely pass through. Why are you doing your best to try and catch defectors?

  

  Lee Hyeon-seo
  • Country
  • Why
  • Hate

• Our culture is more shaped by the arts and humanities than it often is by politics.

  

  James A. Leach
  • Culture
  • Politics
  • Shape

• They had a person who was extremely proud that a number of the women had become doctors. And I wasn't interested.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Women
  • Proud

• Dogma? Faith? These are the right and left pillars of every soul-crushing theology. Theosophists have no dogmas, exact no blind faith.

  

  H. P. Blavatsky
  • Soul
  • Faith
  • Religion

• Socrates was famously executed for his philosophical and political beliefs. I wondered what would happen if you had a similar character, who was so relentlessly questioning of everything? In a modern society, would we be any more or any less tolerant of that kind of character?

  

  Samantha Harvey
  • Character
  • Society
  • Political

• Nam divitiarum et formae gloria fluxa atque fragilis est, virtus clara aeternaque habetur.

  

  Sallust

• Prosperity has brought complications. Our lives are busier, faster, more stressful. They're nostalgic for a simpler, slower time.

  

  Matt Ridley
  • Time

• I was bullied by a few people who were much older than me. I went to camp to learn boxing. I was 12, and my coach was 24. I felt like if I could fight him, I could stand up to anyone.

  

  Liam Payne One Direction
  • People
  • Up
  • Boxing

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

  

  John von Neumann
  • Elephant