Source: The Mind and the Brain, 1907, p. 37
Remark made by von Neumann as keynote speaker at the first national meeting of the Association for Computing Machinery in 1947, as mentioned by Franz L. Alt at the end of "Archaeology of computers: Reminiscences, 1945--1947", Communications of the ACM, volume 15, issue 7, July 1972, special issue: Twenty-fifth anniversary of the Association for Computing Machinery, p. 694.
“Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
“Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.”
“Every one is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.”
Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar, Ch. LXVI
Following the Equator (1897)
“All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.”
“That’s the best thing about being dead. It’s like being stupid. It’s only painful for others.”
“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
Preface to Transit of Venus: Poems by Harry Crosby (1931)
“He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.”
“There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking it-self is dangerous.”
“Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.”
“When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”
“Some mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.”
Cut It Out (2004)
Source: Wall and Piece
“Black holes are where God divided by zero.”
“Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude.”
“When a person can’t find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.”
