Quotes About Logic

What I mean by crazy is irrational. There are four ways in which the people you deal with can be irrational: •?They can't see the world clearly. •?They say or think things that make no sense. •?They make decisions and take actions that aren't in their best interest. •?They become downright impossible when you try to guide them back to the side of reason.

Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them.

To exist (in mathematics), said Henri Poincaré, is to be free from contradiction. But mere existence does not guarantee survival. To survive in mathematics requires a kind of vitality that cannot be described in purely logical terms.

But today there is still a more onerous meaning to "surplus population." They are not only potential sources of cheaper labor, but also, as cast-offs are fodder to become kept humans, profitable for being warehoused, bodies as raw material for profit. This, in fact, is the logic of the private prisons we have already discussed.

The major aim of this social leveraging is to further lock in the power of the white/nonwhite binary. This exploitative logic does that quite well. Again, we see here the resiliency of white supremacy's imposition and use of the black/white binary, and as part of white supremacy's mode of reinforcing itself against the stereotypes of all non-white peoples. Asians

By Christianity's own traditional logic, we are compelled to face and to meditate on a figure who entered into Rome's and Palestine's state-sanctioned theatrics of terror. We

Propositions become either pure or impure, not true or false.

If you have to translate code to statements to understand it, it should probably be statements in the first place.

and indent all but the simplest of blocks.

With the possible exception of the higher reaches of pure mathematics or theoretical physics, one can scarcely imagine anything more inhuman than philosophy. Its worship of logic in all its cold, crystalline purity; its determination to stride the bleak and icy mountaintops of theory and abstraction: to be a philosopher is to be existentially deracinated. Philosophers should be offered condolences rather than encouragement.

First draft, use your heart. Revision, use your head

Humor comes out of the unexpected: If there's no surprise, there's no laugh. In a triple, as discussed in chapter seven, the first two lines are often straight lines; this is the realistic element. The third line is the surprise twist—logically related to the first two lines, but unexpected and exaggerated. Realism is the setup, while exaggeration is the joke. "Get your facts first," wrote Mark Twain, "and then you can distort them as much as you please.

A joke is a curve ball—a pitch that bends at the last instant and fools the batter. "You throw a perfectly straight line at the audience and then, right at the end, you curve it. Good jokes do that," Burrows said. To achieve the unexpected twist, it's sometimes necessary to sacrifice grammar and even logic.

Since it appears that exaggeration is the logical antithesis of realism, it may seem ludicrous to have both within the framework of one piece of humor. But good humor is a paradox—the unexpected juxtaposition of the reasonable next to the unreasonable—and that creates surprise. Think

It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.

Insanity destroys reason, but not wit.

What I like about the jokes, to me it's a lot of logic, no matter how crazy they are. It has to make absolute sense, or it won't be funny.

A force as of madness in the hands of reason has done all that was ever done in the world.

There is no logic in logics except an illogical logic.

In Iran's future Islamic system everyone can express their opinion, and the Islamic government will respond to logic with logic.

I've got this theory that there is a Volvo in any sane person's future.

I'm afraid that the following syllogism may be used by some in the future. Turing believes machines think Turing lies with men Therefore machines do not think Yours in distress, Alan

Reason shapes the future, but superstition infects the present.