Quote by Charles Stross

“Today, whether we are doing algebra or playing with the computer, we are, in effect, benefitting from some inheritance of the quest for a…

— Umberto Eco

“They were spells, spelled with words to make worlds, waiting for me, in the pages of books.”

— Neil Gaiman

“Set up an arbitrary set of rules and then follow them slavishly.”

— Errol Morris

“hyper-geometric Arithmetic —Oddition, Extraction, Uglification, and Excision.” “I”

— Kent David Kelly

“Its coding wheels, stepping a space—or two, or three, or four—after every letter or so, did not return to their original positions to re-create…

— David Kahn

“Turing’s idea of designing a program that acquires most of its content by learning, rather than having it pre-programmed at the outset, can apply…

— Nick Bostrom

“It was written in the ancient RUNIX spell-language, and is read-only and can't be modified.”

— Jasper Fforde

“Math. Are you able to turn off your mind to the world and fill it with symbols that follow rules?”

— Ned Vizzini

“...the world injected its patterns into human language at the very inception of that language; mathematics sleeps in every utterance, and can only be…

— Stanisław Lem

“...the following parable may be useful. Long ago, when shepherds wanted to see if two herds of sheep were isomorphic, they would look for…

— John C. Baez

More than sixty years ago, mathematical logicians, by defining precisely the concept of an algorithm, gave content to the ancient human idea of an…

— David Berlinski

“This was the eloquence of alphabets and numeric systems, now fully realized in electronic form, in the zero-oneness of the world, the digital imperative…

— Don Delillo, Cosmopolis