Quotes About Computation

I believe only in the mathematics.

I was a mathematics major and really into math.

Maths is the language of science.

In short, with Sarri football is maths.

I really like maths.

The real agent of change is not computers per se but rather the computation that we are installing into even the most mundane constituents of our everyday surroundings. As we have seen, we are at the point that it is now often cheaper to manufacture digital information processing into an object than it to leave it out. Microelectronics permit even trivial products to be deeply complex and connectible—and that is both the promise and the problem. That

Computation, after all, implied a problem not yet solved, insights not yet achieved. There was really only one sort of program for which foreknowledge of the outcome didn't diminish the point of exercise, and Brüks had never been able to find any religious orders that described God as a porn addict.

Can you make fancy patterns of water that actually have some computation power? I'm betting that fluids are complex enough to do this.

There is no physical law precluding particles from being organised in ways that perform even more advanced computations than the arrangements of particles in human brains.

I find imaginary numbers useful when computing my tax deductions.

A forEach operation that does anything more than present the result of the computation performed by a stream is a "bad smell in code," as is a lambda that mutates state.

Amos and I called our first joint article "Belief in the Law of Small Numbers." We explained, tongue-in-cheek, that "intuitions about random sampling appear to satisfy the law of small numbers, which asserts that the law of large numbers applies to small numbers as well." We also included a strongly worded recommendation that researchers regard their "statistical intuitions with proper suspicion and replace impression formation by computation whenever possible.

Of course, not all slow thinking requires that form of intense concentration and effortful computation—I did the best thinking of my life on leisurely walks with Amos.

Nicholas had never before felt amused by anything to do with Simon. He divided twelve quickly by three and concluded that he had not been punched seriously on the head.

Bistromathics," he said, "the most powerful computational force known to parascience.

Mathematical reasoning may be regarded...

We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge.

the incantations which could shatter a mind into ones and zeros; pure number.

Qafzeh's algorithms—if implemented properly on a particular architecture of quantum computer—led to a net heat loss from the local universe. A cryo-arithmetic engine was in essence just a computer, running computational cycles. Unlike ordinary computers, however, it got colder the faster it ran.

Our human intelligence is based on computational processes that we are learning to understand. We will ultimately multiply our intellectual powers by applying and extending the methods of human intelligence using the vastly greater capacity of nonbiological computation. So to consider the ultimate limits of computation is really to ask: what is the destiny of our civilization?

Charles Bascomb was a man who loved figures—the genuine, Arabic kind, that is.

The purpose of computation is insight, not numbers.

Transcendental [numbers], They transcend the power of algebraic methods.

Strange as it may sound, the power of mathematics rests on its evasion of all unnecessary thought and on its wonderful saving of mental operations.