Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
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Do not commit your poems to pages alone, sing them I pray you.
The most merciful thing in the world . . . is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
That all our knowledge begins with experience, there is indeed no doubt….but although our knowledge originates WITH experience, it does not all arise OUT OF experience.
Thus, be it understood, to demonstrate a theorem, it is neither necessary nor even advantageous to know what it means….[A] machine might be imagined where the assumptions were put in at one end, while the theorems came out at the other, like the legendary Chicago machine where the pigs go
The fathers of the field had been pretty confusing: John von Neumann speculated about computers and the human brain in analogies sufficiently wild to be worthy of a medieval thinker, and Alan Turing thought about criteria to settle the question of whether machines can think, a question of which we
He who will not economize will have to agonize.
The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in the corner of newspapers…but in the number of passages that have really taken root in younger minds.