Computation Quote by Rudy Rucker Download Open image “A computation is a process that obeys finitely describable rules.” — Rudy Rucker ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Computation Process
“Computational processes are abstract beings that inhabit computers. As they evolve, processes manipulate other abstract things called data. The evolution of a process is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Lately Ive been working to convince myself that everything is a computation. — Rudy Rucker Copy Share Image
Lately I've been working to convince myself that everything is a computation. — Rudy Rucker Copy Share Image
Computations are everywhere, once you begin to look at things in a certain way. — Rudy Rucker Copy Share Image
All physical systems can be thought of as registering and processing information, and how one wishes to define computation will determine your view of… — Seth Lloyd Copy Share Image
Computation involves going from a question to an answer. Mathematics involves going from an answer to a question. — Peter Hilton Copy Share Image
“Computation is fundamentally a representational medium, but as we attempt to expand the ways in which we interact with computation, we need to pay… — Paul Dourish Copy Share Image
“By any objective standard, the theory of computational complexity ranks as one of the greatest intellectual achievements of humankind -- along with fire, the… — Scott Aaronson Copy Share Image
The question you raise, 'How can such a formulation lead to computations?' doesn't bother me in the least! Throughout my whole life as a… — Alexander Grothendieck Copy Share Image
“One of the implicit principles of computer science, as odd as it may sound, is that computation is bad: the underlying directive of any… — Brian Christian Copy Share Image
“In short, computation is a pattern in the spacetime arrangement of particles, and it’s not the particles but the pattern that really matters! Matter… — Max Tegmark Copy Share Image
If we suppose that many natural phenomena are in effect computations, the study of computer science can tell us about the kinds of natural… — Rudy Rucker Copy Share Image
It's soothing to realize that my mind's processes are inherently uncontrollable. — Rudy Rucker Copy Share Image
All living things are gnarly, in that they inevitably do things that are much more complex than one might have expected. — Rudy Rucker Copy Share Image
Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens. — Rudy Rucker Copy Share Image
“Everything is cellular. Reality is cellular. I really love that word, cellular. Cellular phone, cellular foam, sleeper cell, cellulite, cellular automata . . .… — Rudy Rucker Copy Share Image
Some ideas you have to chew on, then roll them around a lot, play with them before you can turn them into funky science… — Rudy Rucker Copy Share Image
I am, as it were, an eye that the cosmos uses to look at itself. The Mind is not mine alone; the Mind is… — Rudy Rucker Copy Share Image
For me, the best thing about Cyberpunk is that it taught me how to enjoy shopping malls, which used to terrify me. Now I… — Rudy Rucker Copy Share Image
Advice to beginning SF writers? Write a lot, finish what you write, and when it's done, keep sending it out for quite awhile. — Rudy Rucker Copy Share Image
If we suppose that many natural phenomena are in effect computations, the study of computer science can tell us about the kinds of natural… — Rudy Rucker Copy Share Image
At present, however, I don't think the Net is a very good medium for books, books should really be inexpensive lightweight paperbacks you can… — Rudy Rucker Copy Share Image
Fantastic truths perish slower... Sappho's moon will survive the moon of Armstrong. Different computations are necessary. — Odysseas Elytis Copy Share Image
ALGEBRA is a general Method of Computation by certain Signs and Symbols which have been contrived for this Purpose, and found convenient. — Colin Maclaurin Copy Share Image
If you roll dice, you know that the odds are one in six that the dice will come up on a particular side. So… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
If we suppose that many natural phenomena are in effect computations, the study of computer science can tell us about the kinds of natural… — Rudy Rucker Copy Share Image
The term, information at your fingertips, is to remind people what a broad role the personal computer will be playing. It's not a computation… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Some things, like the orbits of the planets, can be calculated far into the future. But that's atypical. In most contexts, there is a… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
There is something going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
To me quantum computation is a new and deeper and better way to understand the laws of physics, and hence understanding physical reality as… — David Deutsch Copy Share Image
I have tried to avoid long numerical computations, thereby following Riemann's postulate that proofs should be given through ideas and not voluminous computations. — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
The Old Testament contains over 300 references to the Messiah that were fulfilled in Jesus Christ. Computations using the science of probability on just… — Fritz Ridenour Copy Share Image
“Mathematics is not about numbers, equations, computations, or algorithms: it is about understanding” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
