Computation Quotes

40 quotes by 31 authors

When the aggregate amount of solid matter transported by rivers in a given number of centuries from a large continent, shall be reduced to arithmetical… — Charles Lyell
Perhaps some day in the dim future it will be possible to advance the computations faster than the weather advances and at a cost less… — Lewis Fry Richardson
Mathematics is no more computation than typing is literature. — John Allen Paulos
The destiny of man is not measured by material computations. When great forces are on the move in the world, we learn weâ€™re spiritsâ€”not animalsâ€¦.… — Ronald Reagan
When the idea of any pleasure strikes your imagination, make a just computation between the duration of the pleasure and that of the repentance that… — Epictetus
Mathematics is much more than computation with pencil and a paper and getting answers to routine exercises. In fact, it can easily be argued that… — John A. Van de Walle
As a peace machine, it's value to the world will be beyond computation. Would a declaration of war between Russia and Japan be made, if… — John Brisben Walker
My knowledge of the human psyche is as yet imperfect. Certain areas won't yield to computation. — Poul Anderson
The underlying physical laws necessary for the mathematical theory of a large part of physics and the whole of chemistry are thus completely known, and… — Paul Dirac
Understanding is, after all, what science is all about â€” and science is a great deal more than mindless computation. — Roger Penrose
All physical systems can be thought of as registering and processing information, and how one wishes to define computation will determine your view of what… — Seth Lloyd
I have not proved that the universe is, in fact, a digital computer and that it's capable of performing universal computation, but it's plausible that… — Seth Lloyd
The history of the universe is, in effect, a huge and ongoing quantum computation. The universe is a quantum computer. — Seth Lloyd
It is India that gave us the ingenious method of expressing all numbers by means of ten symbols, each symbol receiving a value of position… — Pierre-Simon Laplace
A computation is a process that obeys finitely describable rules. — Rudy Rucker
Computations are everywhere, once you begin to look at things in a certain way. — Rudy Rucker
If we suppose that many natural phenomena are in effect computations, the study of computer science can tell us about the kinds of natural phenomena… — Rudy Rucker
Lately Ive been working to convince myself that everything is a computation. — Rudy Rucker
Computation involves going from a question to an answer. Mathematics involves going from an answer to a question. — Peter Hilton
But biology and computer science - life and computation - are related. I am confident that at their interface great discoveries await those who seek… — Leonard Adleman

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