A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
By the new year of 1994, it had grown up into Inform 4 and could produce games twice as large.
Writing a really general parser is a major but different undertaking, by far the hardest points being sensitivity to context and resolution of ambiguity.
I always think of space-time as being the real substance of space, and the galaxies and the stars just like the foam on the ocean.
Nuclear weapons are intrinsically neither moral nor immoral, though they are more prone to immoral use than most weapons.
So Whitehead's metaphysics doesn't fit very well on to physics as we understand the process of the world.
Amherst was pivotal in my broad intellectual development; MIT in my development as a professional economist.
I always found the appeal to the market gods a bit odd. Why would the market fix mistakes instead of aggravating them?
When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the latter for everyone else.
Your faith in -the Tinkering Man- has one fatal flaw. It offers you no escape clause.
If I were to awaken after having slept for a thousand years, my first question would be: Has the Riemann hypothesis been proven?
Banks are run by executives, and executives protect themselves, and that does not always mean that banks are going to behave rationally.
People talk of the new economy and of reinventing themselves in the workplace, and in that sense most of us are less secure.
We sat here during Irene in '99 with the back door open. We drank and watched all the stuff fly by.
Mankind is not special by virtue of our address in the universe, or what spins around us, or because life originated here. Slowly, but surely, we've been compelled to renounce the comfort of these beliefs.
There's a lot to do in space. I want to learn more about the greenhouse effect on Venus, about whether there was life on Mars, about the environment in which Earth and the Sun is immersed, the behavior of the Sun.
Crabbed and obscure definitions are of no use beyond a narrow circle of students, of whom probably every one has a pet one of his own.
Now that I near 80, I realize with wistful pleasure that on many occasions I was 10, 20, 40, even 50 years ahead of my time.
Most of the time, we think fast. And most of the time we're really expert at what we're doing, and most of the time, what we do is right.
Mental states of every kind, - sensations, feelings, ideas, - which were at one time present in consciousness and then have disappeared from it, have not with their disappearance absolutely ceased to exist.
In course of time the Brothers Cowper removed the manufacture of their printing machines from London, to Manchester. There they found skilled and energetic workmen, ready to carry their plans into effect.
