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“I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.”
-- Isaac Newton



 

 

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“No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.”
-- Isaac Newton

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"Science is knowledge which we understand so well that we can teach it to a computer; and if we don't fully understand something, it is an art to deal with it. "
-- Donald Knuth

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"If you find that you're spending almost all your time on theory, start turning some attention to practical things; it will improve your theories. If you find that you're spending almost all your time on practice, start turning some attention to theoretical things; it will improve your practice."

-- Donald Knuth

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"The major cause [of the software crisis] is that the machines have become several orders of magnitude more powerful! To put it quite bluntly: as long as there were no machines, programming was no problem at all; when we had a few weak computers, programming became a mild problem, and now we have gigantic computers, programming has become an equally gigantic problem. In this sense the electronic industry has not solved a single problem, it has only created them, it has created the problem of using its products."

-- Edsger Dijkstra

"One of the most frequently mentioned equations was Euler's equation:

Respondents called it 'the most profound mathematical statement ever written'; 'uncanny and sublime'; 'filled with cosmic beauty'; and 'mind-blowing'. Another asked: 'What could be more mystical than an imaginary number interacting with real numbers to produce nothing?' The equation contains nine basic concepts of mathematics — once and only once — in a single expression. These are: e (the base of natural logarithms); the exponent operation; π; plus (or minus, depending on how you write it); multiplication; imaginary numbers; equals; one; and zero."

-- Robert P. Crease on "Euler's identity"