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Quote by Gerald Jay Sussman

“Nothing brings fear to my heart more than a floating point number.”

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Gerald Jay Sussman is a renowned electrical engineer, born on February 8, 1947. He has made significant contributions to the fields of computer science and software engineering, particularly in programming languages and algorithm design. more

“Each of the essays in this volume ranges widely across technical and philosophical domains. They examine both familiar automatons from throughout history and delight us with yet more that will likely be unfamiliar to most readers. But the real treat of the essays is how they will make Artificial Life researchers squirm as they recognize their own intellectual sleights of hand exposed for all to see. Those researchers and the Genesis Redux contributors are all ultimately interested in what it is that truly distinguishes us beings from other lumps of matter.”

“The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is the lawgiver. No playwright, no stage director, no emperor, however powerful, has ever exercised such absolute authority to arrange a stage or field of battle and to command such unswervingly dutiful actors or troops.”

Universe Actors Powerful Stage Fields Battle Directors Authority Computer Absolutes Creator Command Troops Playwright Emperor Programmers Computer Programmers

Author:Joseph Weizenbaum

“Being personally acquainted with a number of Waldorf students, I can say that they come closer to realizing their own potential than practically anyone I know.”

Knows I Can Realizing Numbers Students

Author:Joseph Weizenbaum

“Roppongi is now virtually a foreign neighborhood. Africans-I don't mean African-Americans-who don't speak English are there doing who knows what. This is leading to new forms of crime such as car theft. We should be letting in people who are intelligent.”

People Knows Should Mean Form Speak Car Crime Intelligent African American Neighborhood Theft Speak English

Author:Shintaro Ishihara

“A party is a political tool. If it's no longer useful, it should be crumpled up and thrown away.”

Ifs Should Political Party Tools Thrown

Author:Shintaro Ishihara

“Only love with its science makes us so innocent.”

Innocent Only Love

Author:Violeta Parra

“Write as you like, use the rhythms that come out, try different instruments, sit at the piano, destroy the metric, shout instead of singing, blow your guitar and ring the horn. Hate mathematics, and love eddies. Creation is a bird without a flight plan, that will never fly in a straight line.”

Writing Trying Different Use Hate Lines Plans Creation Singing Bird And Love Mathematics Instruments Guitar Blow Rings Flight Rhythm Piano Horns Straight Lines Metrics

Author:Violeta Parra

“In Tharoor's hands [the story of modern India] is transformed into Mahabharata magic.... Endlessly inventive, irreverent, wise, ingenious,... it takes on at one level or another the entire panorama of modern India....Energetic and eventful.”

Stories Hands Levels Wise Magic Modern India Transformed Energetic Ingenious Irreverent Mahabharata Panorama Modern India

Author:M. G. Vassanji

“Why is it the Mongols of this world always tell us they're defending us against the Mongols?”

World This World Mongols

Book:Nile Shadows

Source: Nile Shadows

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