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“Mathematics is a language. We want scientists to be able to read it, speak it, and write it. But we are are not training them to be grammarians.”

Herbert Simon

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One of the first rules of science is if somebody delivers a secret weapon to you, you better use it.

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“[Stated in 1965:] Machines will be capable, within 20 years, of doing any work a man can do.”

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