Quotes by John von Neumann

Author John von Neumann
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In any conceivable method ever invented by man, an automaton which produces an object by copying a pattern, will go first from the pattern to a description to the object. It first abstracts what the thing is like, and then carries it out. It’s therefore simpler not to extract from a real object its definition, but to start from the definition.
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In any conceivable method ever invented by man, an automaton which produces an object by copying a pattern, will go first from the pattern to a description to the object. It first abstracts what the thing is like, and then carries it out. It’s therefore simpler not to extract from a real object its definition, but to start from the definition.

-John von Neumann

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In this sense, an object is of the highest degree of complexity if it can do very difficult and involved things.
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In this sense, an object is of the highest degree of complexity if it can do very difficult and involved things.

-John von Neumann

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Natura non facis Saltus.
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Natura non facis Saltus.

-John von Neumann