Richard P. Feynman Quotes:
Ocupation: Physicist
Life: May 11, 1918 - February 15, 1988
Birthday: May 11
Death: February 15
John von Neumann gave me an interesting idea: that you don't have to be responsible for the world that you're in. So I have developed a very powerful sense of social irresponsibility as a result of von Neumann's advice. It's made me a very happy man ever since. But it was von Neumann who put the seed in that grew into my active irresponsibility!
source: "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!". Book by Richard P. Feynman. Part 3: "Feynman, The Bomb, and the Military", "Los Alamos from Below", p. 132, 1985.
topic: Powerful, Men, Ideas, Interesting Ideas, Von Neumann, Very Powerful, Happy Man
