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Problems are often stated in vague terms... because it is quite uncertain what the problems really are.


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

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



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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 which will do just that.



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

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



Computers are like humans - they do everything except think.

Computers are like humans - they do everything except think.



Truth is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations.

Truth is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations.



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

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



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

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



With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk.

With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk.



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

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



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

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





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