Von Neumann Languages

Famous quotes containing the words von, neumann and/or languages:

    “You don’t love if you don’t take the beloved’s faults for virtues.”
    —Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)

    “What a lesson here for our world. One blast, thousands of years of civilization wiped out.”
    —Kurt Neumann (1906–1958)

    “The less sophisticated of my forbears avoided foreigners at all costs, for the very good reason that, in their circles, speaking in tongues was commonly a prelude to snake handling. The more tolerant among us regarded foreign languages as a kind of speech impediment that could be overcome by willpower.”
    —Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)