"Every computer divides itself into its hardware and……" — David Berlinski
"Every computer divides itself into its hardware and its software, the machine host to its algorithm, the human being to his mind. It is hardly surprising that men and women have done what computers now do long before computers could do anything at all. The dissociation between mind and matter in men and machines is very striking; it suggests that almost any stable and reliable organization of material objects can execute an algorithm and so come to command some form of intelligence."
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29 Quotes by David Berlinski
David Berlinski has 29 quotes on this site.
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Darwin's theory of evolution is the last of the great nineteenth-century mystery religions. And as we speak it is now…
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There are gaps in the fossil graveyard, places where there should be intermediate forms, but where there is nothing whatsoever…
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Ultimately, Leibniz argued, there are only two absolutely simple concepts, God and Nothingness. From these, all other concepts may be…
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If moral statements are about something, then the universe is not quite as science suggests it is, since physical theories,…
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Commentators who today talk of 'The Dark Ages' when faith instead of reason was said to ruthlessly rule, have for…
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Just who has imposed on the suffering human race poison gas, barbed wire, high explosives, experiments in eugenics, the formula…
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Darwinism is not a sufficient condition for a phenomenon like Nazism but I think it's certainly a necessary one,
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I do not know whether any of this is true. I am certain that the scientific community does not know…
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Although every novel is derived directly from another novel, there is really only one novel, the Quixote.
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While science has nothing of value to say on the great and aching questions of life, death, love and meaning,…
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Validity is the touchstone of inference, and truth of judgment: the fact that vichyssoise is cold ratifies the judgment that…
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The definition of a limit is essentially his [Cauchy's] creation and is as much of a miracle as those fantastic…
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More Algorithm Quotes
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The development of an organism ... may be considered as the execution of a 'developmental program' present in the fertilized…
— Unknown Author
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The burgeoning field of computer science has shifted our view of the physical world from that of a collection of…
— Paul Davies
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If there was some sort of mathematical equation for beauty, I don’t know if I would be the algorithm. I’m not…
— Lady Gaga
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I'm not anti conceptual art. I don't think painting must be revived, exactly. Art reflects life, and our lives are…
— Jenny Saville
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Frankly, the reason I joined MENSA is because I was dating a guy at the time who spoke five languages…
— Ashley Rickards
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Once you succeed in writing the programs for [these] complicated algorithms, they usually run extremely fast. The computer doesn't need…
— Unknown Author
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Object-oriented programming aficionados think that everything is an object.... this [isn't] so. There are things that are objects. Things that…
— Alexander Stepanov
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Capablanca's phenomenal move-searching algorithm in those early years, when he possessed a wonderful ability for calculating variations very rapidly, made…
— Mikhail Botvinnik
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If you’re concerned about scalability, any algorithm that forces you to run agreement will eventually become your bottleneck. Take that…
— Werner Vogels
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There is no algorithm for creativity.
— Andy Hargreaves
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Heuristic is an algorithm in a clown suit. It’s less predictable, it’s more fun, and it comes without a 30-day,…
— Steve McConnell
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You cannot invent an algorithm that is as good at recommending books as a good bookseller.
— John Green
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