If People Do Not Believe

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.

Truth Is Much Too Complicated To Allow Anything But Approximations.

You Don't Have To Be Responsible For The World That You're In.

Science, As Well As Technology, Will In The Near And In The Farther Future Increasingly Turn From Problems Of Intensity, Substance, And Energy, To Problems Of Structure, Organization, Information, And Control.

Problems Are Often Stated In Vague Terms... Because It Is Quite Uncertain What The Problems Really Are.