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Computation Quotes by Howard Aiken
- 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…
- 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.
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- When the aggregate amount of solid matter transported by rivers in a given number of centuries from a large continent, shall be… — Charles Lyell
- Perhaps some day in the dim future it will be possible to advance the computations faster than the weather advances and at… — Lewis Fry Richardson
- Mathematics is no more computation than typing is literature. — John Allen Paulos
- When the idea of any pleasure strikes your imagination, make a just computation between the duration of the pleasure and that of… — Epictetus
- Mathematics is much more than computation with pencil and a paper and getting answers to routine exercises. In fact, it can easily… — John A. Van de Walle
- Computation involves going from a question to an answer. Mathematics involves going from an answer to a question. — Peter Hilton
- What would it be like if, right in the midst of this busyness, we were to consciously take our hands off the… — Tara Brach
- The question you raise, 'How can such a formulation lead to computations?' doesn't bother me in the least! Throughout my whole life… — Alexander Grothendieck