I Would Like To Make A Confession

Anyone Who Attempts To Generate Random Numbers By Deterministic Means Is, Of Course, Living In A State Of Sin.

There Is No Point In Being Precise If You Do Not Even Know What You Are Talking About.

If You Tell Me Precisely What It Is A Machine Cannot Do, Then I Can Always Make A Machine Which Will Do Just That.

Neumann, To A Physicist Seeking Help With A Difficult Problem: Simple. This Can Be Solved By Using The Method Of Characteristics. Physicist: I'm Afraid I Don't Understand The Method Of Characteristics. Neumann: In Mathematics You Don't Understand Things. You Just Get Used To Them.

The Total Subject Of Mathematics Is Clearly Too Broad For Any Of Us. I Do Not Think That Any Mathematician Since Gauss Has Covered It Uniformly And Fully; Even Hilbert Did Not And All Of Us Are Of Considerably Lesser Width Quite Apart From The Question Of Depth Than Hilbert.