I Would Like To Make A Confession

Any One Who Considers Arithmetical Methods Of Producing Random Digits Is, Of Course, In A State Of Sin. For, As Has Been Pointed Out Several Times, There Is No Such Thing As A Random Number - There Are Only Methods To Produce Random Numbers, And A Strict Arithmetic Procedure Of Course Is Not Such A Method.

When We Talk Mathematics, We May Be Discussing A Secondary Language Built On The Primary Language Of The Nervous System.

If People Do Not Believe That Mathematics Is Simple, It Is Only Because They Do Not Realize How Complicated Life Is.

I Am Thinking About Something Much More Important Than Bombs. I Am Thinking About Computers.

By And Large It Is Uniformly True In Mathematics That There Is A Time Lapse Between A Mathematical Discovery And The Moment When It Is Useful; And That This Lapse Of Time Can Be Anything From 30 To 100 Years, In Some Cases Even More; And That The Whole System Seems To Function Without Any Direction, Without Any Reference To Usefulness, And Without Any Desire To Do Things Which Are Useful.