Quote by John D. Barrow

“Experience is algorithmically incompressible.”

— Ted Chiang

“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

“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 letter is susceptible of operations which enables one to transform literal expressions and thus to paraphrase any statement into a number of equivalent…

— Tobias Dantzig

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

— Pierre-Simon Laplace

Express only that which cannot be expressed. Leave it unexpressed)

— Maurice Blanchot

I was eventually persuaded of the need to design programming notations so as to maximize the number of errors which cannot be made, or…

— Tony Hoare

The quantity of meaning compressed into small space by algebraic signs, is another circumstance that facilitates the reasonings we are accustomed to carry on…

— Charles Babbage

“Simplicity may be simple, but like complexity it requires linguistic precision, and may therefore call for relatively obscure expressions at times.”

— John White

“An equation commonly contains one or more so-called unknowns, often represented by x, y, z, etc.”

— Stieg Larsson

“algorithms can be, as she says, “used as weapons” to perpetuate discrimination. They can use math to camouflage bias.”

— Scott Hartley

The text is a limited field of possible constructions.

— Paul Ricoeur