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Johann von Neumann (1903 - 1957)
US (Hungarian-born) computer scientist, mathematician [more author details]
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- In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
- Johann von Neumann
- The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical construct which, with the addition of certain verbal interpretations, describes observed phenomena. The justification of such a mathematical construct is solely and precisely that it is expected to work.
- Johann Von Neumann
- You wake me up early in the morning to tell me I am right? Please wait until I am wrong.
- Johann von Neumann, on being phoned at 10:00 AM
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