Computer Quote by William Thurston Download Open image “Mathematics is much less formally complete and precise than computer programs.” — William Thurston ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Computer Computers Mathematics Precise Program Science
Most programming languages are decidedly inferior to mathematical notation and are little used as tools of thought in ways that would be considered significant… — Kenneth E. Iverson Copy Share Image
Mathematics is much more than computation with pencil and a paper and getting answers to routine exercises. In fact, it can easily be argued… — John A. Van de Walle Copy Share Image
Maths is fundamentally a different process in education than it is in the real world. There is an insistence that we do maths by… — Conrad Wolfram Copy Share Image
Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians. — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
Calculating does not equal mathematics. It's a subsection of it. In years gone by it was the limiting factor, but computers now allow you… — Conrad Wolfram Copy Share Image
Maths should be more practical and more conceptual, but less mechanical. — Conrad Wolfram Copy Share Image
Theoretical Computer Science is just as useless as everything we mathematicians do. — Jennifer Tour Chayes Copy Share Image
Mathematics is nothing more, nothing less, than the exact part of our thinking. — L. E. J. Brouwer Copy Share Image
The product of mathematics is clarity and understanding. Not theorems, by themselves. ... In short, mathematics only exists in a living community of mathematicians… — William Thurston Copy Share Image
As one reads mathematics, one needs to have an active mind, asking questions, forming mental connections between the current topic and other ideas from… — William Thurston Copy Share Image
Math is really about the human mind, about how people can think effectively, and why curiosity is quite a good guide. — William Thurston Copy Share Image
We humans have a wide range of abilities that help us perceive and analyze mathematical content. We perceive abstract notions not just through seeing… — William Thurston Copy Share Image
You don't see what you're seeing until you see it but when you do see it, it lets you see many other things. — William Thurston Copy Share Image
Experience has shown repeatedly that a mathematical theory with a rich internal structure generally turns out to have significant implications for the understanding of… — William Thurston Copy Share Image
The real satisfaction from mathematics is in learning from others and sharing with others. — William Thurston Copy Share Image
I think mathematics is a vast territory. The outskirts of mathematics are the outskirts of mathematical civilization. There are certain subjects that people learn… — William Thurston Copy Share Image
Mathematicians can and do fill in gaps, correct errors, and supply more detail and more careful scholarship when they are called on or motivated… — William Thurston Copy Share Image
Issac:"I dislike living in a world without Augustus Waters." Computer: "I don't understand-" Issac: "Me neither. Pause — John Green Copy Share Image
If you stood me in a costume next to a computer graphic of the same-looking character, I think there would be a difference. And… — Warwick Davis Copy Share Image
It's interesting that the greatest minds of computer science, the founding fathers, like Alan Turing and Claude Shannon and Norbert Wiener, they all looked… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
One of our big goals in search is to make search that really understands exactly what you want, understands everything in the world. As… — Larry Page Copy Share Image
We are beginning to see intimations of this in the implantation of computer devices into the human body. — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
I'm from the South, so I'm very old-fashioned and I'm not very computer savvy at all, but I'm getting it. I understand that, if… — Angie Harmon Copy Share Image
“To all the secret writers, late-night painters, would-be singers, lapsed and scared artists of every stripe, dig out your paintbrush, or your flute, or… — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
A little bit more than 50% of what you see on screen is handcrafted and the other 50% was about emulating these textures on… — Alex Abreu Copy Share Image
Well I'm trying to think what I put in... I think I put in 'why?' to see if I'd confuse the computer. — Karl Pilkington Copy Share Image
Our brains are great at knowing what to forget. We actually have to teach computers to do the same. — Kevin Maney Copy Share Image
Nor would anybody suspect. If was one thing all people took for granted, was conviction that if you feed honest figures into a computer,… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
