Speech, Association for Computing Machinery inaugural conference, Columbia University, New York (15 Sep 1947) - Von Neumann, John | WIST Quotations
If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is. Von Neumann insisted that ENIAC's command language could encompass all mathematics, given how only a thousand words could handle most needs of life, and mathematics was, he insisted, simpler…
