A R Von Quotes

A R Von Quote of the day

I remember my friend Johnny von Neumann used to say, 'with four parameters I can fit an elephant and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk.'

There are two kinds of people in the world: Johnny Von Neumann and the rest of us.

No one has characterized market mechanisms better than Friedrich von Hayek

John von Neumann was the only student I was ever afraid of.

Professor von Mises has a splendid analytical mind and an admirable passion for liberty; but as a student of human nature he is worse than null and as a debater he is of Hyde Park standard.

He [John von Neumann] had the invaluable faculty of being able to take the most difficult problem and separate it into its components, whereupon everything looked brlliantly simple.

It appears that the solution of the problem of time and space is reserved to philosophers who, like Leibniz, are mathematicians, or to mathematicians who, like Einstein, are philosophers.

The proposition that economist Ludwig von Mises was a feminist is an apodictic impossibility.

I commend my soul to any god that can find it.

[Alexander von Humboldt was the] greatest scientific traveller who ever lived.

The market system is the basis of our civilization. Its only alternative is the Führer principle.

Running overtime is the one unforgivable error a lecturer can make. After fifty minutes (one microcentury as von Neumann used to say) everybody's attention will turn elsewhere.

Use "entropy" and you can never lose a debate, von Neumann told Shannon - because no one really knows what "entropy" is.

... The approach of von Neumann and Connes to the use of non-commutative algebra in physics is naive, the situation is much more complicated.

The study of maps and the perusal of travel books aroused in me a secret fascination that was at times almost irresistible.

Ludwig von Mises referred to Ayn Rand as 'the most courageous man in America.' If that doesn't say it all about the economist's man-centric frame of reference, I don't know what does.

Pascal and C are special-purpose languages for manipulating the registers and memory of a von Neumann-style computer.

Robert von Neumann taught painting, and when I finally got into a painting class of his, he reacted in much the same way.

Those two teachers [Kathleen Blackshear and Robert von Neumann] were just fantastic, I thought. They never directed you in a single direction, but they just encouraged you to think for yourself.

I consider him [Alexander von Humboldt] the most important scientist whom I have met.

You fill my soul with hope and love.Together, we will remain through the heavens above.One soul, together. For always and forever…

Doesn't this place give you the creeps? You could perhaps do something with some floral wallpaper and a fire-bomb.

I myself must also say I believe it is true that in the end humanitarianism will triumph

I’m starving to learn more about her. A new hunger that I know only she could satisfy.

He [Alexander von Humboldt] was to science what Shakespeare was to the drama.

In all things it is better to hope than to despair.

This man [Alexander von Humboldt] is as knowledgeable as a whole academy.

[Alexander von] Humboldt showers us with true treasures.

My lone desire stands, looking like beauty on a cloud, ripe for my picking, ready for me to ravish and pleasure. Waiting for me to tempt and tease. Satisfy and gratify.

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds

As the new Adam, it might be said, his final act was to cast the Apple of Knowledge into the deep blue sea.

Tears are pouring down my cheeks like tiny rivers, soaking my shirt with dark patches of my salty happiness.

Think of you! I do not think of you

Vanessa insisted that film was exactly like poetry. Nothing necessarily had to happen

The real discoverer of South America was [Alexander von] Humboldt, since his work was more useful for our people than the work of all conquerors.

I now can say I no longer fear death. Instead welcome it with open arms…

Beware the faces that bare the most smiles.For they are the ones who hide the most sadness—.

Tragic tales rarely do make sense.

My heart, for unknown reasons, seems to freeze in motion in my chest. I can see he senses it and he holds his pause to enjoy my suffering, prolonging my ignorance. “Viktor, what?

How many times can a heart be shattered and still be pieced back together? How many times before the damage is irreparable?

Open the fridge and putMy heart on a plate.I'm just as you leftme, and I taste even betterleftover.

And all we feared inside the night / shows true in morning's biased light.

A society that chooses between capitalism and socialism does not choose between two social systems

I have to admit. Saying goodbye—leaving Bonnie. Was one of the hardest things I’ve ever done in my entire life. It actually hurt…

Wow! This woman is doing a lot of strange things to me and I want more. Much more.

That was an important rule of any game: always make it easy for people to give you money.

The balance-of-payments theory forgets that the volume of foreign trade is completely dependent upon prices

Determinants of prices have their effect only through the medium of the subjective estimates of individuals

Reading was very important

You can be the ripest, juiciest peach in the world, and there's still going to be somebody who hates peaches.