John Von Neumann Famous Quotes & Sayings

We get somewhere we couldn't go otherwise and we profit from the trip, but we can't stay there, it isn't our world, and we shouldn't let that world come crashing down into the one we can inhabit. — Jeanette Winterson

When I read a script or I see a character, I don't necessarily see the arc of her, that by the end she is this person, she's different from she was in the beginning. I guess it's more a subconscious understanding of that arc. — Shailene Woodley

We know from chaos theory that even if you had a perfect model of the world, you'd need infinite precision in order to predict future events. With sociopolitical or economic phenomena, we don't have anything like that. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Risk it; go for it. Life always gives you another chance, another go at it. It's very important to take enormous risks. — Mary Quant

This is why I loved technology: if you used it right, it could give you power and privacy. — Cory Doctorow

What had really caused the women's movement was the additional years of human life. At the turn of the century women's life expectancy was forty-six; now it was nearly eighty. Our groping sense that we couldn't live all those years in terms of motherhood alone was "the problem that had no name." Realizing that it was not some freakish personal fault but our common problem as women had enabled us to take the first steps to change our lives. — Betty Friedan

It's something I never knew about her. How bizarre that you can know your entire life, see their most hidden pains and hopes, and not know the tiniest detail about them. — Kelsey Sutton

The realm will rise for its rightful king. Tyrell, — George R R Martin

You know when you meet someone so smart and cool that all their tastes and opinions seem like the correct ones? And you instantly think: those are my opinions now too! — Mindy Kaling

Bone by bone, hair by hair, Wild Woman comes back. Through night dreams, through events half understood and half remembered ... — Clarissa Pinkola Estes

There appears to be momentum towards more and more misunderstandings between religions, a degradation of relations. — Aga Khan IV