For progress there is no cure. Any attempt to find automatically safe channels for the present explosive variety of progress must lead to frustration… - John von Neumann

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For progress there is no cure. Any attempt to find automatically safe channels for the present explosive variety of progress must lead to frustration. The only safety possible is relative, and it lies in an intelligent exercise of day-to-day judgment.

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About John von Neumann

John von Neumann (28 December 1903 – 8 February 1957) was a Hungarian-American-Jewish mathematician, physicist, inventor, computer scientist, and polymath. He made major contributions to a number of fields, including mathematics (foundations of mathematics, functional analysis, ergodic theory, geometry, topology, and numerical analysis), physics (quantum mechanics, hydrodynamics and quantum statistical mechanics), economics (game theory), computing (Von Neumann architecture, linear programming, self-replicating machines, stochastic computing), and statistics.

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Native Name: margittai Neumann János Lajos
Also Known As: Good Time Johnny
Alternative Names: John Von Neumann • Janos Lajos Neumann • János Lajos Neumann • von Neumann • Neumann János Lajos • John Louis von Neumann
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Originators like John von Neumann:
Henri Poincaré Richard Hamming Alan Turing Doron Zeilberger Norbert Wiener

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Se la gente non crede che la matematica è semplice, è solo perché non capisce quanto è complicata la vita.
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