Mathematics And Computer Science Quotes

#1. People tend to think that mathematicians always work in sterile conditions, sitting around and staring at the screen of a computer, or at a ceiling, in a pristine office. But in fact, some of the best ideas come when you least expect them, possibly through annoying industrial noise.

Edward Frenkel

#2. Mathematics is much less formally complete and precise than computer programs.

William Thurston

#3. People who run a ready-to-wear company are businessmen rather than production or design people.

Calvin Klein

#4. ! want to leverage the creativity of researchers across mathematics, statistics, data mining, computer science, biology, medicine, and the public at large.

Tan Le

#5. ...but I say whatever / one loves, is

Sappho

#6. The odors of perfume were fanned out on the summer air by the whirling vents of the grottoes where the women hid like undersea creatures, under electric cones, their hair curled into wild whorls and peaks, their eyes shrewd and glassy, animal and sly, their mouths painted a neon red.

Ray Bradbury

#7. The wrongdoer is often the person who left something undone, rather than the person who has done something

Marcus Aurelius

#8. As for explaining mathematical phenomena it opens the question: explaining to whom? humans?, other computers?

Gil Kalai

#9. This is a global fight to get the right people in the right place and we're talking about people with PhDs in engineering, computer science, mathematics.

Jerry Moran

#10. Reckon your weakness as praise of God's power, endure suffering in joy, risk your life on the veracity of Christ, count your loneliness a means of grace.

William Stringfellow

#11. Even when I was studying mathematics, physics, and computer science, it always seemed that the problem of consciousness was about the most interesting problem out there for science to come to grips with.

David Chalmers

#12. I grew up in Adelaide, Australia. No one in my family had finished high school, and I was smart at mathematics, so I became an academic and got my Ph.D. in computer science at Stanford. I didn't set out to be a businessperson.

Rodney Brooks

#13. Overstimulation has been the real drawback. I need to find ways to stop thinking about analysis of algorithms, in order to do various other things that human beings ought to do.

Donald Ervin Knuth

#14. I was lucky to get into computers when it was a very young and idealistic industry. There weren't many degrees offered in computer science, so people in computers were brilliant people from mathematics, physics, music, zoology, whatever. They loved it, and no one was really in it for the money.

Steve Jobs

#15. What a strange creature is a laughing fool,
As if a man were created to no use
But only to show his teeth.

John Webster

#16. I worked for twenty-some years with no capital, so I never had any liquidity. Managing my loans alone wouldn't do it, and working hard twenty-four hours a day seven days a week alone wouldn't do it. You have to be properly capitalized.

Bob McNair

#17. Without computers we will be stuck only proving theorems that have short proofs.

Kenneth Appel

#18. If I avoid anything, it's that I don't really go to places that are like a little corner of England. I also never mind going to a dance show because I love it all so much.

Anton Du Beke

#19. A few days after my new state occupied my village, I became a prisoner of war rather than a citizen.

Noam Chomsky