Quote #681
In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
-- J. von Neumann
In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
-- J. von Neumann
Related:
- Quote #483
"You wake me up early in the morning to tell me I am right?
Please wait until I am wrong." -- John von Neumann... - You Get Used To Those
Things..... - There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know
what you're talking about.
John von... - It seems easy to understand those who long for things as they were.
You used to get a free sandwich with a dime beer.... - There's no use being precise
about something when you don't even know what you're talking about.
John von... - Confidence is the feeling you get just before you fully
understand the problem... - Quote #593
Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.
Alan J. Perlis, Epigrams,... - If you understand, things are as they are.
If you do not understand,
things are as they are. -- Gensha, Zen...
From the same category:
- Quote #376
I have been told that _Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology_ was
required reading at the Xerox PARC lab where OOP was invented,
but this may be merely an urban legend. ... - Quote #539
When you don't know what you are doing,
do it neatly... - Quote #57
Life is too short to be taken seriously.
Oscar... - Quote #507
"You see crabgrass at your feet.
A funny thing in a dungeon... - Quote #140
"...all life is only a set of pictures in the brain,
among which there is no difference betwixt those...
