"Vadim Sytnikov" <syt### [at] rucom> wrote:
> BTW, in the same vein... Can't remember who (Knuth? Deikstra? Wirth?) said
> that, but I liked it very much:
>
> "Anyone who considers arithmetic means of producing random numbers is, of
> course, in a state of sin."

Google helped, as always... It was John von Neumann.

(and the exact quote is "Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of
producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin").

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