John von Neumann Quotes
Best 8 Quotes by John von Neumann
“All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control.”
“An element which stimulates itself will hold a stimulus indefinitely.”
“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 number – there are only methods to produce random numbers, and a strict arithmetic procedure of course is not such a method.”
“Can we survive technology?”
“Computers are like humans – they do everything except think.”
“In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.”
The Computer and the Brain Quotes
“A system of logical instructions that an automaton can carry out and which causes the automaton to perform some organized task is called a code.”
“It is only proper to realize that language is largely a historical accident.”
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“Our currently accepted conceptions of the beginning of the universe postulate much more uniformity than exists now. One way entropy could increase in the universe is by the process of reduction of its state function by some other system. Since the universe, by definition, cannot have any other matter in it, it becomes essential to postulate a mechanism other than that of physical laws, which permits the state function to reduce. This other mechanism may be the working of the 'consciousness principle' which can just by the process of 'observation' increase entropy.”
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