Guarantees Quote by Evan Parker

If structure does not tell us anything about function, it means that we have not looked at it correctly.

— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

The form is the possibility of the structure.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“As long as we are engaged in this orgy of unnecessary terminology and notation…”

— David J. Griffiths

It is important to distinguish the difficulty of describing and learning a piece of notation from the difficulty of mastering its implications. [...] Indeed,…

— Kenneth E. Iverson

Such is the advantage of a well constructed language that its simplified notation often becomes the source of profound theories.

— Pierre-Simon Laplace

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

— Gottfried Leibniz

The text is a limited field of possible constructions.

— Paul Ricoeur

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

Precisely constructed models for linguistic structure can play an important role, both negative and positive, in the process of discovery itself. By pushing a…

— Noam Chomsky

I'm still uncertain about the language declaration syntax.

— Dennis Ritchie

A formal parsing algorithm should not always be used.

— David Gries

It is... easy to be certain. One has only to be sufficiently vague.

— Charles Sanders Peirce