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John Von Neumann Draws Attention To What Seemed To Him A Contrast. He Remarked That For Simple Mechanisms, It Is Often Easier To Describe How They Work Than What They Do, While For More Complicated Mechanisms, It Is Usually The Other Way Around.

There Should Be No Such Thing As Boring Mathematics.

It Is Not The Task Of The University To Offer What Society Asks For, But To Give What Society Needs.

Too Few People Recognize That The High Technology So Celebrated Today Is Essentially A Mathematical Technology.

Lisp Has Jokingly Been Described As "the Most Intelligent Way To Misuse A Computer." I Think That Description Is A Great Compliment Because It Transmits The Full Flavour Of Liberation: It Has Assisted A Number Of Our Most Gifted Fellow Humans In Thinking Previously Impossible Thoughts.