“THE COMPUTER IS JUST AN INSTRUMENT for doing faster what we already know how to do slower. All pretensions to computer intelligence and paradise-tomorrow promises should be toned down before the public turns away in disgust. And if that should happen, our civilization might not survive.” IfsKnowsShouldMightHappensScienceTurnsKnow HowTomorrowPromiseCivilizationComputerMathematicsInstrumentsFasterParadiseDisgustingPretension Book:Discrete Thoughts: Essays on Mathematics, Science and Philosophy Source: Discrete Thoughts: Essays on Mathematics, Science and Philosophy
“Suppose someone follows the series "1,3,5,7, ..", and in writing the series 2x+1; and he asked himself "But am I always doing the same thing, or something different every time?" If from one day to the next someone promises: "Tomorrow I will give up smoking", does he say the same thing every day, or every day something different?” IfsGivingWritingDoeDifferentScienceNextTomorrowPromiseOne DayGiving UpMathematicsSeriesSmokingGiving Up Smoking Author:Ludwig Wittgenstein
“Just like a man grieving because he has recently lost in his dreams some thing that he had never had in reality, or hoping that tomorrow he would dream that he found it again. That is how mathematics is created; it has its fatal flaw.” MenDreamRealityFoundLostTomorrowMathematicsGrievingFlawsFatal Flaws Book:Five novels Source: Five novels