Advantage Quote by 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

I believe that things can be expressed very powerfully through simplicity.

— Johann Johannsson

The marvelous thing is that even in studying linguistics, we find that the universe as a whole is patterned, ordered, and to some degree…

— Anonymous

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

“We can never dispense with language and the other symbol systems; for it is by means of them, and only by their means, that…

— Aldous Huxley

Profound thought is conveyed in language of very great simplicity and purity.

— Charlotte Mason

I enjoy the inventive ways in which language is manipulated to make meaning.

— Amitava Kumar

“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

Over the past fifty years or so, scientists have allowed the conventions of expression available to them to become entirely too confining.

— David Mermin

There cannot be a language more universal and more simple, more free from errors and obscurities...more worthy to express the invariable relations of all…

— Joseph Fourier

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

— John White

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