For every living creature that succeeds in getting a footing in life there are thousands or millions that perish. There is an enormous random scattering for every seed that comes to life. This does not remind us of intelligent human design. “If a man in order to shoot a hare,
He who will not economize will have to agonize.
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
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
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.
The most merciful thing in the world . . . is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
Do not commit your poems to pages alone, sing them I pray you.
Adjectives are the potbelly of poetry.