Gerald Jay Sussman famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The key to understanding complicated things is knowing what not to look at.
-- Gerald Jay Sussman

#Keys #Knowing #Understanding
Nothing brings fear to my heart more than a floating point number.
-- Gerald Jay Sussman

#Heart #Numbers #Floating
In engineering, as in other creative arts, we must learn to do analysis to support our efforts in synthesis. One cannot build a beautiful and functional bridge without a knowledge of steel and dirt, and a considerable mathematical technique for using this knowledge to compute the properties of structures. Similarly, one cannot build a beautiful computer system without a deep understanding of how to "previsualize" the process generated by the code one writes.
-- Gerald Jay Sussman

#Beautiful #Art #Writing
Being smart in the arts is the same as being smart in engineering is the same as being smart in writing is the same as being smart in anything, really. It's the ability to manipulate all the pieces of the puzzle in your mind, try to fit them together, and when they don't fit quite right... you sand the edges/corners and make them all fit.
-- Gerald Jay Sussman

#Art #Writing #Engineering
The reason why people think of programming as being hard is because you're writing down a general rule which is going to be used for lots of instances that a particular instance must process correctly.
-- Gerald Jay Sussman

#Writing #Thinking #People
A recursive definition does not necessarily lead to a recursive process.
-- Gerald Jay Sussman

#Doe #Definitions #Process

Seated one day at the organ, I was weary and ill at ease, and my fingers wandered idly over the noisy keys. It seemed the harmonious echo from our discordant life.
Pattern-finding is the purpose of the mind and the construct of the universe. There are an infinite number of patterns, some of which are known; those still unknown hold the key to unresolved enigmas and paradoxes.
I've always believed it's important to make the invisible visible. And valuing that which has been taken for granted is something that I've always instinctually known is the key to the kind of society I want to live in and raise my children in.
He pressed a kiss to my ear. â€œDo you feel stretched? Can you tell Iâ€™ve been inside you?â€ I nodded, feeling my knees go a little weak from the tone in his voice. â€œGood. I like knowing you can feel where Iâ€™ve been.
Women move through the world never knowing their power.
A visual understanding of great composition and how to use a camera and expensive lenses can be learned, but drive and a real hunger for making photos and telling stories... I don't think that part can be learned. You either have that inside, or you don't.
Cats and I have an understanding, but we choose not to interact often.
We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.
Can you imagine if you really let it in that you are not a problem to be solved in any way? Imagine you knew that anything that would tell you otherwise is just a movement of thought in the mind that says "Whatever is, isn't the way it is supposed to be." So the biggest act of compassion starts within. And when the self is no longer seen as a problem, this is called "the peace that passes all understanding."
Tolerance, openness and understanding towards other peoples' cultures, social structures, values and faiths are now essential to the very survival of an interdependent world.

Gerald Jay Sussman famous quotes

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