Best Computation Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: A Treatise of Algebra, in Three Parts: Containing I. The Fundamental Rules and Operations; II. The Composition and Resolution of Equations of All Degrees, and the Different Affections of Their Roots; III. The Application of Algebra and Geometry to Each Other. To which is Added an Appendix Concerning the General Properties of Geometrical Lines

“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!”

Ifs Thinking Kind Answers Clear Wonderful Finals Think Of You Halt Computation

Author:Rudy Rucker

“One of the things that I've been doing recently in my scientific research is to ask this question: Is the universe actually capable of performing things like digital computations?”

Universe Asks Capable Research Performing Digital Scientific Research Computation

Author:Seth Lloyd

“We live beyond words, as also we live beyond computation and beyond theory.”

Theory Computation

Book:Life is a Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition

Source: Life is a Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition

“Computer scientists have so far worked on developing powerful programming languages that make it possible to solve the technical problems of computation. Little effort has gone toward devising the languages of interaction.”

Littles Problem Language Powerful Effort Gone Computer Scientist Solve Developing Programming Interaction Programming Languages Computation Devising

Author:Donald A. Norman

“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.”

Source: The Freeholder. Swift's notes on the Free-holder. The Plebian, by Sir Richard Steele, with The Old whig, by Mr. Addison. The Lover

“Keep computations to the lowest level of the multiplication table.”

Levels Tables Lowest Multiplication Computation

Author:David Hilbert

“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.”

People Helping Use Answers Technology Produce Needed Data Software Rapids Researchers Computing Computation

Author:Bob Muglia

“The Saviour said He was going to prepare us a place. How wonderful it will be is beyond human computation. Remember that in six days Christ made the heavens and earth and all that in them is.... If He made so many wonders in six days, then what beauties and marvels He has surely prepared during these 1900 years in which He has been preparing our mansions in the Father's House!”

Ifs Years Humans Has Beens Made Said Earth Remember Father House Heaven Christ Wonder Wonderful Six Prepared Preparing Saviour Heaven And Earth Mansions Computation

Author:John R. Rice

“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.”

Light Universe Computer Happenings Quantum Hacking Hackers Computation Hijacking

Author:Seth Lloyd

“We couldn't build quantum computers unless the universe were quantum and computing. We can build such machines because the universe is storing and processing information in the quantum realm. When we build quantum computers, we're hijacking that underlying computation in order to make it do things we want: little and/or/not calculations. We're hacking into the universe.”

Want Littles Order Universe Information Computer Machines Realms Quantum Calculations Processing Hacking Computing Computation Hijacking

Author:Seth Lloyd

“Upon the present theological computation, ten souls must be lost for one that is saved. At which rate of reckoning, heaven can raise but its cohorts while hell commands its legions. From which sad account it would appear, that, though our Saviour had conquered death by the resurrection, he had not yet been able to overcome sin by the redemption.”

Source: The Works of Laurence Sterne: With a Life of the Author

“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.”

Body Pain Energy Pay Attention Our Lives Complexes Sensations Signals Ache Exhaustion Spelling Digestion Indigestion Computation Aches And Pains

Book:Our Children Are Watching: Ten Skills for Leading the Next Generation to Success

Source: Our Children Are Watching: Ten Skills for Leading the Next Generation to Success

“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.”

Humans Wells Matter Realizing Human Beings Identity Behavior Capacity Mere Complexes Manipulation Homosexuality Distinguished Computation Kinsey

Book:Homosexual; oppression and liberation

Source: Homosexual; oppression and liberation

“I suppose that Paderewski can play superbly, if not quite at his best, while his thoughts wander to the other end of the world, orpossibly busy themselves with a computation of the receipts as he gazes out across the auditorium. I know a great actor, a master technician, can let his thoughts play truant from the scene.”

“Computers are good at swift, accurate computation and at storing great masses of information. The brain, on the other hand, is notas efficient a number cruncher and its memory is often highly fallible; a basic inexactness is built into its design. The brain's strong point is its flexibility. It is unsurpassed at making shrewd guesses and at grasping the total meaning of information presented to it.”

Hands Strong Memories Numbers Brain Information Design Computer Mass Built Efficient Accurate Flexibility Grasping Computation

Author:Jeremy Campbell

“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!”

Ifs Knows Sides Know How Risk Particular Six Investing Come Up Odds Bulls Dice Computation

Author:Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“I've been asked to explain why I don't worry much about the topics of privacy threat...One reason is that these scenarios seem to assume that there will be large, monolithic bureaucracies...that are capable of harnessing computers for one-way surveillance of an unsuspecting populace. I've come to feel that computation just doesn't work that way. Being afraid of monolithic organizations especially when they have computers, is like being afraid of really big gorillas especially when they are on fire.”

“In almost every computation a great variety of arrangements for the succession of the processes is possible, and various considerations must influence the selections amongst them for the purposes of a calculating engine. One essential object is to choose that arrangement which shall tend to reduce to a minimum the time necessary for completing the calculation.”

Purpose Process Influence Objects Essentials Various Variety Consideration Engines Minimum Arrangements Selection Calculations Succession Calculating Completing Computation

Author:Ada Lovelace

“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.”

Men Done Values Mistake Kindness Pride Return Gratitude Agree Favors Occasions Giver Receiver Computation Agree Upon

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“I have no great faith in political arithmetic, and I mean not to warrant the exactness of either of these computations.”

Mean Political Arithmetic Warrants Great Faith Computation Exactness

Book:The Wealth of Nations: An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations: With an introduction by Jonathan B. Wight, University of Richmond

Source: The Wealth of Nations: An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations: With an introduction by Jonathan B. Wight, University of Richmond

“The theory of numbers, more than any other branch of mathematics, began by being an experimental science. Its most famous theorems have all been conjectured, sometimes a hundred years or more before they were proved; and they have been suggested by the evidence of a mass of computations.”

Years Has Beens Sometimes Numbers Theory Mass Hundred Evidence Mathematics Branches Theorems Computation Experimental Science

Author:G. H. Hardy

“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.”