Quotes About Konrad Zuse

Pulses themselves have a digital character, for they are normalized in intensity and duration; they are therefore digital, but their density (the number of pulses per unit time) can have any number of intermediate values, and it is therefore analog in character. A commonly-held opinion today is that the human nervous system operates on this principle.

Horst was born precisely when Konrad was think- ing about Rechnender Raum for the first time (the common translation into English is Calculating Space but the phrase in his native German carries a lot more cognitive weight than its plain English counterpart, in light of the ideas treated in Zuse's piece: calculation, computation of nature, space and/or the universe).