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  • If you think of your life as a kind of computation, it's quite abundantly clear that there's not going to be a final answer and there won't be anything particularly wonderful about having the computation halt!

  • When you zap things with light to build quantum computers, you're hacking existing systems. You're hijacking the computation that's already happening in the universe, just like a hacker takes over someone else's computer.

    "Life, the Universe, and Everything". WIRED Interview, www.wired.com. March 1, 2006.
  • The desire to economize time and mental effort in arithmetical computations, and to eliminate human liability to error is probably as old as the science of arithmetic itself.

    Errors   Effort   Desire  
    "Proposed Automatic Calculating Machine". Paper by Howard H. Aiken, dl.acm.org. 1937.
  • When the aggregate amount of solid matter transported by rivers in a given number of centuries from a large continent, shall be reduced to arithmetical computation, the result will appear most astonishing to those...not in the habit of reflecting how many of the mightiest of operations in nature are effected insensibly, without noise or disorder.

  • Keep computations to the lowest level of the multiplication table.

    "Hilbert - Courant". Book by Constance Reid, p. 104, 1984.
  • We live beyond words, as also we live beyond computation and beyond theory.

    Wendell Berry (2001). “Life is a Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition”, Counterpoint Press
  • Mathematics is not about numbers, equations, computations, or algorithms: it is about understanding.

  • All physical systems can be thought of as registering and processing information, and how one wishes to define computation will determine your view of what computation consists of.

  • Ladies are always of great use to the party they espouse, and never fail to win over numbers to it. Lovers, according to Sir William Petty's computation, make at least the third part of sensible men of the British nation; and it has been an uncontroverted maxim in all ages, that though a husband is sometimes a stubborn sort of a creature, a lover is always at the devotion of his mistress. By this means, it lies in the power of every fine woman, to secure at least half a dozen able-bodied men to his Majesty's service.

    Husband   Lying   Party  
    Joseph Addison (1860). “The Freeholder. Swift's notes on the Free-holder. The Plebian, by Sir Richard Steele, with The Old whig, by Mr. Addison. The Lover”, p.17
  • Quantum computation is a distinctively new way of harnessing nature. It will be the first technology that allows useful tasks to be performed in collaboration between parallel universes.

    Technology   Way   Firsts  
    "The Fabric of Reality: The Science of Parallel Universes and Its Implications". Book by David Deutsch. Chapter 9, 1997.
  • The moral, then, is that familiar categories of behavior - marriage customs, food taboos, folk superstitions, and so on - certainly do vary across cultures and have to be learned, but the deeper mechanisms of mental computation that generate them may be universal and innate.

    Steven Pinker (2003). “The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature”, p.66, Penguin
  • It is India that gave us the ingenious method of expressing all numbers by means of ten symbols, each symbol receiving a value of position as well as an absolute value; a profound and important idea which appears so simple to us now that we ignore its true merit. But its very simplicity and the great ease which it has lent to computations put our arithmetic in the first rank of useful inventions; and we shall appreciate the grandeur of the achievement the more when we remember that it escaped the genius of Archimedes and Apollonius, two of the greatest men produced by antiquity.

    "Return to Mathematical Circles". Book by Howard Eves, 1988.
  • But biology and computer science - life and computation - are related. I am confident that at their interface great discoveries await those who seek them.

  • I have tried to avoid long numerical computations, thereby following Riemann's postulate that proofs should be given through ideas and not voluminous computations.

    Math   Ideas   Long  
  • We must pay close attention to the signals our body sends - the aches and pains, digestions and indigestions, increased energies and exhaustions. Our body sends us signals about the correct 'spelling' of our lives. These sensations are the sum of complex inner computations that we must learn to interpret.

    Pain   Body   Pay  
    Susan Collins (1996). “Our Children Are Watching: Ten Skills for Leading the Next Generation to Success”, Barrytown/ Station Hill Press
  • That which occasions so many mistakes in the computations of men, when they expect return for favors, is that the giver's pride and the receiver's cannot agree upon the value of the kindness done.

  • Nature laughs at the difficulties of integration.

    "The Armchair Science Reader". Book by Isabel S. Gordon and Sophie Sorkin, 1959.
  • A computation is a process that obeys finitely describable rules.

  • I spent 20 years doing research on regular and irregular verbs, not because I'm an obsessive language lover but because it seemed to me that they tapped into a fundamental distinction in language processing, indeed in cognitive processing, between memory lookup and rule-driven computation.

    Memories   Years   Verbs  
  • If you roll dice, you know that the odds are one in six that the dice will come up on a particular side. So you can calculate the risk. But, in the stock market, such computations are bull - you don't even know how many sides the dice have!

    Odds   Risk   Investing  
  • The destiny of man is not measured by material computations. When great forces are on the move in the world, we learn we’re spirits—not animals…. There’s something going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty.

    Time   Moving   Learning  
    A radio speech broadcast from London to America on receiving the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws of the University of Rochester, June 16, 1941.
  • Imagination is actually a form of computation. Imagination gives calculated and instinctive solutions for the future.

    L. Ron Hubbard (1987). “Self Analysis”, p.277, Bridge Publications, Inc.
  • Calculators can only calculate - they cannot do mathematics.

    John A. Van de Walle (1994). “Elementary School Mathematics: Teaching Developmentally”, Longman Publishing Group
  • Human beings are distinguished by a capacity for experience as well as by their behavior, and homosexuality is as much a matter ofemotion as of genital manipulation.... As we each examine our own sense of identity we realize how much more complex is the question of homosexuality than a mere Kinsey-like computation of orgasms.

    Dennis Altman (1974). “Homosexual; oppression and liberation”, Lane, Allen
  • Perhaps some day in the dim future it will be possible to advance the computations faster than the weather advances and at a cost less than the saving to mankind due to the information gained. But that is a dream.

  • People know, or dimly feel, that if thinking is not kept pure and keen, and if respect for the world of mind is no longer operative, ships and automobiles will soon cease to run right, the engineer's slide rule and the computations of banks and stock exchanges will forfeit validity and authority, and chaos will ensue.

    Hermann Hesse (2002). “The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel”, p.48, Holt Paperbacks
  • What would it be like if, right in the midst of this busyness, we were to consciously take our hands off the controls? What if we were to intentionally stop our mental computations and our rushing around and, for a minute or two, simply pause and notice our inner experience?

    Hands   Two   Rushing  
  • The more we learn about AI and about how the brain works, the more amazing the brain seems. Just the sheer amount of computation it does is truly incredible, especially for a couple of pounds of meat.

    Couple   Brain   Meat  
    "Intelligent robots don't need to be conscious to turn against us". Interview with Guia Marie Del Prado, www.businessinsider.com. August 5, 2015.
  • What's needed now are software technologies that interconnect computing systems, people and data to produce more rapid answers to the questions of science, and to help researchers use computation in the most effective manner.

  • There is something going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty.

    Space   Duty   Obligation  
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