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Von Neumann's famous sayings

About the famous person: John von Neumann (1903-1957) was a Hungarian-American mathematician, computer scientist, and physicist. He is known as the "Father of Modern Computers" and "The Father of Game Theory".

Selected quotes:

1. Science never tries to explain anything, and almost never even tries to let us understand anything. They mainly provide models.

2. Life is a never-ending game process, and game means achieving desired results by choosing appropriate strategies. As a gamer, the best strategy is to maximize the use of game rules; as a society, the best strategy is to use rules to guide the increase in overall social welfare.

3. Young people, in mathematics you don't understand things, you just get used to them.

4. If some people don’t believe that mathematics is simple, it’s because they don’t realize how complicated life is!

5. Complaining that people are selfish and cunning is as stupid as complaining that the magnetic field must increase when the electric field has curl. Both are laws of nature.

(Insert a thought: The fourth sentence is not just mathematics, it is true for any academic)