"The computer is important, but not to mathematics." — Paul Halmos

"The computer is important, but not to mathematics."

— Paul Halmos

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26 Quotes by Paul Halmos

Paul Halmos has 26 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

To be a scholar of mathematics you must be born with talent, insight, concentration, taste, luck, drive and the ability…
What's the best part of being a mathematician? I'm not a religious man, but it's almost like being in touch…
[Mathematics] is security. Certainty. Truth. Beauty. Insight. Structure. Architecture. I see mathematics, the part of human knowledge that I call…
Mathematics is not a deductive science-that's a cliché. When you try to prove a theorem, you don't just list the…
...the source of all great mathematics is the special case, the concrete example. It is frequent in mathematics that every…
It is the duty of all teachers, and of teachers of mathematics in particular, to expose their students to problems…
The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics.
The joy of suddenly learning a former secret and the joy of suddenly discovering a hitherto unknown truth are the…
A good stack of examples, as large as possible, is indispensable for a thorough understanding of any concept,and when I…
Mathematics - this may surprise or shock some - is never deductive in creation.
The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics. That tenet is the foundation of the do-it-yourself, Socratic, or…
The heart of mathematics consists of concrete examples and concrete problems. Big general theories are usually afterthoughts based on small…

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More Computer Quotes

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I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them. — Isaac Asimov
Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely… — Isaac Asimov
All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim… — Isaac Asimov
A lot of these kids I think are more content just to be on Facebook and the computer than they… — Dave Attell
One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.' — Norman Ralph Augustine
Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it… — Norman Ralph Augustine
I write my lyrics into the computer and I hum my music into the dictaphone. — Sebastian Bach
Man, I don't want to have nothing to do with computers. I don't want the government in my business. — Erykah Badu
Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't work, those that break down and those… — Russell Baker
It is fitting that yesteryear's swashbuckling newspaper reporter has turned into today's solemn young sobersides nursing a glass of watered… — Russell Baker
Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will help the inner migration, the opting out of reality. Reality is no longer going… — J. G. Ballard
The word user is the word used by the computer professional when they mean idiot. — Dave Barry

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