"The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers." — Richard Hamming
"The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers."
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Richard Hamming
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33 Quotes by Richard Hamming
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Good teachers deserve apples; great teachers deserve chocolate. A favorite quotation, written in calligraphy on his office door.
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He who works with the door open gets all kinds of interruptions, but he also occasionally gets clues as to…
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If you don't work on important problems, it's not likely that you'll do important work.
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Perhaps the central problem we face in all of computer science is how we are to get to the situation…
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Most people like to believe something is or is not true. Great scientists tolerate ambiguity very well. They believe the…
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True greatness is when your name is like ampere, watt, and fourier-when it's spelled with a lower case letter.
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Science is concerned with what is possible while engineering is concerned with choosing, from among the many possible ways, one…
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It may be said "In research, if you know what you are doing, then you shouldn't be doing it." In…
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Mathematics is an interesting intellectual sport but it should not be allowed to stand in the way of obtaining sensible…
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When you are famous it is hard to work on small problems. This is what did [Claude Elwood] Shannon in.…
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One of the characteristics of successful scientists is having courage. Once you get your courage up and believe that you…
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Science is composed of laws which were originally based on a small, carefully selected set of observations, often not very…
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More Computing Quotes
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The object of geometry in all its measuring and computing, is to ascertain with exactness the plan of the great…
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In 20 or 30 years, you'll be able to hold in your hand as much computing knowledge as exists now…
— Douglas Engelbart
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The computing field is always in need of new cliches.
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Men are noisy, narrow-band devices, but their nervous systems have very many parallel and simultaneously active channels. Relative to men,…
— J. C. R. Licklider
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I would like to emphasize strongly my belief that the era of computing chemists, when hundreds if not thousands of…
— Robert S. Mulliken
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These are the men who, without virtue, labour, or hazard, are growing rich, as their country is impoverished; they rejoice,…
— Samuel Johnson
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Access to supercomputers. The science is well ahead of our ability to implement it. It's quite clear that if we…
— Unknown Author
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The power efficiency of computing has improved by a factor of a billion from the ENIAC computer of the 1950s…
— Unknown Author
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In the 'Disruptive Broadcasting' space, TV on IP networks is now just another application in a broadband world. We have…
— Jeff Pulver
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Cultural perspective on gender diversity in computing,
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Only the heart knows the correct answer. Most people think the heart is mushy and sentimental. But it's not. The…
— Deepak Chopra
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Right up till the 1980s, SF envisioned giant mainframe computers that ran everything remotely, that ingested huge amounts of information…
— Walter Jon Williams
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