Computation Quotes

40 quotes by 31 authors

We are not very pleased when we are forced to accept a mathematical truth by virtue of a complicated chain of formal conclusions and computations,… — Hermann Weyl
Imagination is actually a form of computation. Imagination gives calculated and instinctive solutions for the future. — L. Ron Hubbard
Fantastic truths perish slower... Sappho's moon will survive the moon of Armstrong. Different computations are necessary. — Odysseas Elytis
What would it be like if, right in the midst of this busyness, we were to consciously take our hands off the controls? What if… — Tara Brach
The desire to economize time and mental effort in arithmetical computations, and to eliminate human liability to error is probably as old as the science… — Howard Aiken
I have tried to avoid long numerical computations, thereby following Riemann's postulate that proofs should be given through ideas and not voluminous computations. — David Hilbert
The question you raise, 'How can such a formulation lead to computations?' doesn't bother me in the least! Throughout my whole life as a mathematician,… — Alexander Grothendieck
At the present time there exist problems beyond our ability to solve, not because of theoretical difficulties, but because of insufficient means of mechanical computation. — Howard Aiken
ALGEBRA is a general Method of Computation by certain Signs and Symbols which have been contrived for this Purpose, and found convenient. — Colin Maclaurin
If you think of your life as a kind of computation, it's quite abundantly clear that there's not going to be a final answer and… — Rudy Rucker
One of the things that I've been doing recently in my scientific research is to ask this question: Is the universe actually capable of performing… — Seth Lloyd
To me quantum computation is a new and deeper and better way to understand the laws of physics, and hence understanding physical reality as a… — David Deutsch
We live beyond words, as also we live beyond computation and beyond theory. — Wendell Berry
Quantum computation is... a distinctively new way of harnessing nature... It will be the first technology that allows useful tasks to be performed in collaboration… — David Deutsch
I spent 20 years doing research on regular and irregular verbs, not because I'm an obsessive language lover but because it seemed to me that… — Steven Pinker
No sociologist should think himself too good, even in his old age, to make tens of thousands of quite trivial computations in his head and… — Max Weber
People know, or dimly feel, that if thinking is not kept pure and keen, and if respect for the world of mind is no longer… — Hermann Hesse
Probability is not a mere computation of odds on the dice or more complicated variants; it is the acceptance of the lack of certainty in… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Computation, storage, and communications capacity are in the hands of practically every connected person - and these are the basic physical capital means necessary for… — Yochai Benkler
We have lived through the flood time of fascism and of the nazism which ran its meteoric course at a cost to mankind in suffering… — Emily Greene Balch

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