Zeilberger Quotes

#1. Thers is this wonderful iconoclast at Rutgers, Doron Zeilberger, who says that our mathematics is the result of a random walk, by which he means what WE call mathematics. Likewise, I think, for the sciences.

Ian Hacking

#2. Memory is hunger.

Ernest Hemingway,

#3. When a problem seems intractable, it is often a good idea to try to study "toy" versions of it in the hope that as the toys become increasingly larger and more sophisticated, they would metamorphose, in the limit, to the real thing.

Doron Zeilberger

#4. The real work of us mathematicians, from now until, roughly, fifty years from now, when computers won't need us anymore, is to make the transition from human-centric math to machine-centric math as smooth and efficient as possible.

Doron Zeilberger

#5. Mathematics my foot! Algorithms are mathematics too, and often more interesting and definitely more useful.

Doron Zeilberger

#6. It seems sometimes that we get so caught up in missing the past, or looking forward to the future, that we forget that this, right here and now, was once the days we longed for and will soon be the ones we miss.

John A. Ashley

#7. Love exalts because it is exalted.

Bryant McGill

#8. Although they like to call themselves journalists, that's a myth even they don't really believe anymore. They're mutts on short leashes.

Jon Rappoport

#9. The 'lowly' finite is MUCH more beautiful than any 'infinite'

Doron Zeilberger

#10. Let me also remind you that zero, like all of mathematics, is fictional and an idealization. It is impossible to reach absolute zero temperature or to get perfect vacuum. Luckily, mathematics is a fairyland where ideal and fictional objects are possible.

Doron Zeilberger

#11. Regardless of whether or not God exists, God has no place in mathematics, at least in my book.

Doron Zeilberger

#12. It's helpful to always remind yourself that meditation is about opening and relaxing withwhatever arises, without picking and choosing.

Pema Chodron

#13. Programming is much much harder than doing mathematics.

Doron Zeilberger

#14. Our zeal is always guided by charity. Everything is done with strength and gentleness.

Basil Moreau

#15. Conventional wisdom, fooled by our misleading "physical intuition", is that the real world is continuous, and that discrete models are necessary evils for approximating the "real" world, due to the innate discreteness of the digital computer.

Doron Zeilberger

#16. I'd rather tell you about a new horse, a forest of glass, and a long good night.

Laura Ruby

#17. No Victor, you got it backwards, you should evaluate these integrals non-rigorously if you can, and rigorously if you must.

Doron Zeilberger