Arithmetic Quote by Bill Gosper

Calculating machines do sums better than even the cleverest people… As arithmetic has grown easier, it has come to be less respected.

— Bertrand Russell

The desire to economize time and mental effort in arithmetical computations, and to eliminate human liability to error is probably as old as the…

— Howard Aiken

Computers were programmed to swap out error-prone, inconsistent human calculation with digital perfection.

— David Autor

“Intelligibility or precision: to combine the two is impossible.”

— Bertrand Russell

“When things consistently fail to compute, it does point to a consistently undefined possibility.”

— Edwin F. Becker

Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your head.

— Carl Sandburg

Either mathematics is too big for the human mind or the human mind is more than a machine.

— Kurt Gödel

“we don’t assume that people are perfectly sensible, calculating machines. Instead, we observe how people actually behave, and quite often our observations lead us…

— Dan Ariely

Unfortunately, the more complex the system, the greater the room for error.

— George Soros

“Safety warning: never divide by zero unless a licensed mathematician is present.”

— Jordan Ellenberg

“As complexity rises, precise statements lose meaning and meaningful statements lose precision”

— Lotfi A. Zadeh

If a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent.

— Alan Turing