Computers Quote by Neal Stephenson

“It was the engineer who determined what problems to investigate, designed the experiments, and defined the assignments for the mathematicians.”

— Margot Lee Shetterly

The person who did most to give to analysis the generality and symmetry which are now its pride, was also the person who made…

— William Whewell

“It sometimes happens that mathematical methods conceived in the abstract turn out later to be so well suited to a particular application that they…

— Basil Mahon

There was a project at Lawrence Livermore National Labs where many years ago they went down this path for scripting and controlling very large…

— Guido van Rossum

“The basic problem for Lawrence was that he was lazy. He had figured out that everything was much simpler if, like Superman with his…

— Neal Stephenson

“He learns that the form, in its current form, was originally called a formulary, and was invented by an Englishman named Charles Babbage, the…

— Stephen Dau

“Dick Feynman was a genius of visualization (he was also no slouch with equations): he made a mental picture of anything he was working…

— Leonard Susskind

I remember having this vague idea that what mathematicians did was that some authority, someone, gave them problems to solve, and they just sort…

— Terence Tao

'You might think of combinatorics as a machine too', the major says. 'A different sort of machine, though. Have you heard of Babbage's analytic…

— David Leavitt

“Even the most complex math can be broken into a sequence of trivial steps. Each of these slaves has been trained to complete specific…

— B. Herbert, K.J. Anderson

“think of it.' said Robert Rosenbluth, a doctor whose acquaintance i made at the start of this book. 'no engineer could design something as…

— Mary Roach

“He knows more about science than we do, and he's a hundred years in the past. He says we depend too much on machines.…

— Nancy Farmer