Quotes worth Repeating Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
- Arthur C. Clarke

The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers.
- Richard Hamming

There is no more common error than to assume that, because prolonged and accurate mathematical calculations have been made, the application of the result to some fact of nature is certain.
- A.N. Whitehead

Superior algorithms or computer codes will not cure bad models or a lack of engineering judgement.
- Dara Childs

Science is a differential equation.
Religion is a boundary condition.
- Alan Turing

The historian is a prophet looking backwards.
-August Von Schlegel

Irrationality is the square root of all evil.
- Douglas Hofstadler

Set theory can be viewed as a form of exact theology.
- Rudy Rucker

The principle is so perfectly general that no particular application of it is possible.
- George Rush

If you empower dummies, you just get bad decisions faster.
- Rich Tierlink  ¶ 15.4.07

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