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• The calculus was the first achievement of modern mathematics and it is difficult to overestimate its importance. I think it defines more…
• You insist that there is something a machine cannot do. If you tell me precisely what it is a machine cannot do,…
• There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about.
• The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant…
• It is just as foolish to complain that people are selfish and treacherous as it is to complain that the magnetic field…
• You don't have to be responsible for the world that you're in.
• With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk.
• Kurt Godel's achievement in modern logic is singular and monumental - indeed it is more than a monument, it is a landmark…

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