John von Neumann Quotes
If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.
Quotes to Explore
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I'll get up there and I'll do my guitar solos in one of those space outfits.
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992.
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To get promoted, company executives need to be able to see you as one of them.
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It was hard at school because, growing up, some people wanted to be friends with me just because they wanted to get to my dad and say that they had met him and had gone to our house. I didn't understand it at the time, but the older I got and the more aware of it I became, it started becoming hard.
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I truly believe that you have to bring more content to the table to survive in radio than saying, 'There was AC/DC, and here's Journey,' because computers can do that.
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One can not impede scientific progress.
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Even the worst Bond movies, there's something to love about them.
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Risk is to do something that 99 percent of the time would be a failure.
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I make big objects that are simple, bright and clear, kind of ironic but hopefully funny because I love the shapes, and I get inspiration from toys and books, and I believe in art for everyone.
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For my life, I need to make my own choices.
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Jerusalem is united, will never be divided again.
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Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.
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We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.
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I don't read books.
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I've done a lot of things in a business where you're lucky to stay alive, so when the time comes, I'll be happy to pass my knowledge along and help someone else.
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Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.
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Let us not bankrupt our todays by paying interest on the regrets of yesterday and by borrowing in advance the troubles of tomorrow.
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I believe that the human race has developed a form of collective schizophrenia in which we are not only the slaves to this imposed thought behavior, but we are also the police force of it.
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I don't want to be famous per se, but I want to write books for as long as I can. And I plan on writing a lot.
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Anybody who's been through a divorce will tell you that at one point. they've thought murder. The line between thinking murder and doing murder isn't that major.
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In the documentary the basic material has been created by God, whereas in the fiction film the director is a God; he must create life.
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I feel warm toward my Irish side, but I don't know the country or the people. Hearing a traditional Irish fiddle, I feel very connected to Ireland, but that's a nostalgia many people feel who aren't Irish at all.
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If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.
