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The great corrupter of public man is the ego.... Looking at the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem. Dean Gooderham Acheson		Tuesday May 12, 2026
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In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them. John Louis von Neumann

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	John Louis von Neumann
	(1903-1957) Hungarian-US, brilliant mathematician, Advanced Studies professor at Princeton Univ.

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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.

In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.

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

Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random numbers is, of course, in a state of sin.

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.