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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Contrary to rumor, sometimes I can be quite a laugh.
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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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I'm totally fine with people criticizing me in shows... people like this show, or don't; you're entitled to your opinion. But when people are criticizing you as a person, I have to say it's a little bit different.
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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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If Obama fails to win reelection, let the blame be first laid at the door of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, who at a pivotal point threw gasoline on the flames by comparing angry American citizens to Nazis.
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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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The tendency of philosophers who know nothing of machinery is to talk of man as a mere mechanism, intending by this to imply that he is without purpose. This shows a lack of understanding of machines as well as of man.
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At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.
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When antibiotics first came out, nobody could have imagined we'd have the resistance problem we face today. We didn't give bacteria credit for being able to change and adapt so fast.
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I can always tell when people have had plastic surgery.
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When the economy is difficult, people care a great deal about the things they spend their money on. Customers have come to understand that Apple's products aren't priced high - they're priced on the value of what we build into them.
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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.
