I am thinking about something much more important than bombs. I am thinking about computers..

You insist that there is something a machine cannot do. If you tell me precisely what it is a machine cannot do, then I can always make a machine whi….

Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them..

There is no point in being precise if you do not even know what you are talking about..

It is exceptional that one should be able to acquire the understanding of a process without having previously acquired a deep familiarity with runnin….

You don't have to be responsible for the world that you're in..

There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about..

If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is..

I would like to make a confession which may seem immoral: I do not believe absolutely in Hilbert space any more..

It is just as foolish to complain that people are selfish and treacherous as it is to complain that the magnetic field does not increase unless the e….

Science, as well as technology, will in the near and in the farther future increasingly turn from problems of intensity, substance, and energy, to pr….

Truth is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations..

Technological possibilities are irresistible to man. If man can go to the moon, he will. If he can control the climate, he will..

Computers are like humans - they do everything except think..

The calculus was the first achievement of modern mathematics and it is difficult to overestimate its importance. I think it defines more unequivocall….

There probably is a God. Many things are easier to explain if there is than if there isn't..

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, w….

All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control..

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 f….

Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin..

When we talk mathematics, we may be discussing a secondary language built on the primary language of the nervous system..