Computer scientists stand on each other's feet.

True greatness is when your name is like ampere, watt, and fourier-when it's spelled with a lower case letter.

Computer scientists stand on each other's feet.

I have tried, with little success, to get some of my friends to understand my amazement that the abstraction of integers for counting is both possible and useful. Is it not remarkable that 6 sheep plus 7 sheep makes 13 sheep; that 6 stones plus 7 stones make 13 stones? Is it not a miracle that the universe is so constructed that such a simple abstraction as a number is possible? To me this is one of the strongest examples of the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics. Indeed, I find it both strange and unexplainable.

One of the characteristics of successful scientists is having courage.

The most dangerous thought you can have as a creative person is to think you know what you’re doing.

Mathematics is an interesting intellectual sport but it should not be allowed to stand in the way of obtaining sensible information about physical processes.