"If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is."

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Source : John von Neumann's remarks as keynote speaker at the first national meeting of the Association for Computing Machinery (1947) as quoted in "Archaeology of computers: Reminiscences, 1945-1947" by Franz L. Alt, Communications of the ACM, Volume 15, Issue 7, special issue: Twenty-fifth anniversary of the Association for Computing Machinery (p. 694), July 1972.

John von Neumann

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“The depressed person is a radical, sullen atheist.”
“As you release the things you no longer love or use, you call back to yourself the parts of your spirit that have been attached to them, and attached to the emotional needs and memories associated with those objects. In so doing, you bring yourself powerfully into present time. Your energy, instead of being dispersed in a thousand different, unproductive directions, becomes more centered and focused. You feel more spiritually complete and more at peace with yourself.”

Source : Karen Kingston (2016). “Clear Your Clutter with Feng Shui (Revised and Updated): Free Yourself from Physical, Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual Clutter Forever”, p.189, Harmony
“I was quite nauseous every day at school - I had some real stomach problems. The thing that saved me was sitting in church and trying to get into these statues and windows and colors. Truly, it transported me. And I can see it now in my own work - my pictures have kind of that look.”

Source : Source: www.hbook.com
“And wheresoever, in his rich creation, Sweet music breathes--in wave, or bird, or soul-- 'Tis but the faint and far reverberation Of that great tune to which the planets roll!”
“I always not only want push the envelope in my career but I also have an itch for going against the grain.”
“It's not necessarily that satisfying getting monetary success, but sometimes it keeps the door open to make what you want to make.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“It's a sad world we live in when a human being leaves so little of a mark that no one even realizes it when he's gone”
“My mother had a son from previous marriage and her husband died in Second World War.”

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