"If someone gave a problem and von Neumann did not give an immediate solution, then it was an unsolvable problem."
— John von Neumann

January 1, 1970

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Sources

Frederick Reines, as quoted in The Voice of the Martians: Hungarian Scientist Who Shaped the 20th Century in the West (2001) by György Marx, p. 271