Brain Quote by Alfred North Whitehead

It is worth noting that the notation facilitates discovery. This, in a most wonderful way, reduces the mind's labour.

— Gottfried Leibniz

If it is to be effective as a tool of thought, a notation must allow convenient expression not only of notions arising directly from…

— Kenneth E. Iverson

The peculiar need to write is increased, it seems, rather than allayed with practice.

— Fay Weldon

Such is the advantage of a well constructed language that its simplified notation often becomes the source of profound theories.

— Pierre-Simon Laplace

It usually helps me write by reading - somehow the reading gear in your head turns the writing gear.

— Steven Wright

Writing improves in direct ratio to the things we can keep out of it that shouldn't be there.

— William Zinsser

When I write a paper, I change my notation much more than I change my concepts.

— Leslie Lamport

“We normally avoid mental overload by dividing our tasks into multiple easy steps, committing intermediate results to long-term memory or to paper rather than…

— Daniel Kahneman

When I'm actually writing by hand, I get more of a sense of the rhythm of sentences, of syntax. The switch to the computer…

— Natasha Trethewey

Write in a disciplined manner, but write in a way that is natural to the individual's thought processes.

— Donald McKay

“Focused problem solving in math and science is often more effortful than focused-mode thinking involving language and people.”

— Barbara Oakley

Mechanical Notation ... I look upon it as one of the most important additions I have made to human knowledge. It has placed the…

— Charles Babbage