Quotes About Logic

From any rational point of view I am absurd; but there are no longer any rational points of view.

Had he been a lunatic or an intellectually honourable man who'd thought things through to their logical conclusion? And was there any difference?

I think, therefore I spam.

Roman noticed that both women seemed instinctively opposed to the idea. "David's the logical choice," said Ulrike. Eric and Cliff protested, but Rikki overrode them. "It's less complicated.

The inside of a computer is as dumb as hell but it goes like mad!

Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming.

Too few people recognize that the high technology so celebrated today is essentially a mathematical technology.

Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration.

Science is the attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our sense-experience correspond to a logically uniform system of thought.

I love mathematics not only because it is applicable to technology but also because it is beautiful.

My computer must be broken: whenever I ask a wrong question, it gives a wrong answer.

One can prove or refute anything at all with words. Soon people will perfect language technology to such an extent that they'll be proving with mathematical precision that twice two is seven.

Computers are idiots whose only virtue is that they can count up to two extremely fast.

In so many ways I'm just thankful for common sense. Common sense keeps you out of trouble.

One essential object is to choose that arrangement which shall tend to reduce to a minimum the time necessary for completing the calculation.

Science is the only thing that disproves science, and it does it all the time.

History reveals that left-brain people have been creating art for a long time now.

The tradition of always looking for the answer in the most fundamental way available - that is a great tradition, and it saves a lot of time in this world.

When your principles seem to be demanding suicide, clearly it's time to check your premises

And it happened all the time that the compromise between two perfectly rational alternatives was something that made no sense at all.

Believing in George Bush was so ludicrous that believing in God almost seems rational.

Hope is not logical. It always comes as a surprise, just when you think all hope is lost. Hope is the cousin to grief, and both take time: you can't short-circuit grief, or emptiness, and you can't patch it up with your bicycle tire tube kit. You have to take the next right action.

She was highly intelligent, with a gift for logical thought which many people found disturbing—especially men, who did not expect it or like it in a woman.

Don't make a religion of reason and logic. Because in the passage of time reason may fail you and when it does, you may find yourself taking refuge in madness.