Computer Quote by Charles Babbage

It is worth noting that the notation facilitates discovery. This, in a most wonderful way, reduces the mind's labour.

— Gottfried Leibniz

With the computer and programming languages, mathematics has newly-acquired tools, and its notation should be reviewed in the light of them. The computer may,…

— Kenneth E. Iverson

A good notation has a subtlety and suggestiveness which at times make it almost seem like a live teacher.

— Bertrand Russell

One main reason why the separate nature of the science of operations has been little felt, and in general little dwelt on, is the…

— Ada Lovelace

Symbols are to the mind what tools are to the hand--an extended application of its powers.

— Dion Fortune

The monogram of our national initials, which is the symbol for our monetary unit, the dollar, is almost as frequently conjoined to the figures…

— Henry R. Towne

If it is to be effective as a tool of thought, a notation must allow convenient expression not only of notions arising directly from…

— Kenneth E. Iverson

“This is what it means to do mathematics. To make a discovery (by whatever means, including playing around with physical models like paper, string,…

— Paul Lockhart

As the component parts of all new machines may be said to be old[,] it is a nice discriminating judgment, which discovers that a…

— Robert Fulton

Indeed we may consider the engine as the material and mechanical representative of analysis, and that our actual working powers in this department of…

— Ada Lovelace

“Alphabet: a symbolic system used in algebra, with applications that have yet to be discovered by dyslexics and two thirds of college graduates.”

— Bauvard

“The symbol is not a mere formality; it is the very essence of algebra. Without the symbol the object is a human perception and…

— Tobias Dantzig