Bill Gosper famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

If arithmetic overflow is a fatal error, some fascist pig with a read-only mind is trying to enforce machine independence.
-- Bill Gosper

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It's your life story if you're a mathematician: every time you discover something neat, you discover that Gauss or Newton knew it in his crib.
-- Bill Gosper

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A data structure is just a stupid programming language.
-- Bill Gosper

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It is better to be divided by truth than to be united in error. It is better to speak the truth that hurts and then heals, than falsehood that comforts and then kills.
Of all the pitfalls in our paths and the tremendous delays and wanderings off the track, I want to say that they are not what they seem to be. I want to say that all that seems like fantastic mistakes are not mistakes, all that seems like error is not error; and it all has to be done. That which seems like a false step is the next step.
Error sometimes supplies the surprise that makes life interesting.
Understand that for every rule which I have mentioned from the Quran, the Devil has one to match it, which he puts beside the proper rule to cause error.
A collection of errors does not make a truth: quality cannot stem from quantity â€“ a value is not a weight. The reasons of the majority cannot be taken as good reasons.
We know the laws of trial and error, of large numbers and probabilities. We know that these laws are part of the mathematical and mechanical fabric of the universe, and that they are also at play in biological processes. But, in the name of the experimental method and out of our poor knowledge, are we really entitled to claim that everything happens by chance, to the exclusion of all other possibilities?
To steal from a brother or sister is evil. To not steal from the institutions that are the pillars of the Pig Empire is equally immoral.
What we have to fight for...is the freedom and independence of the fatherland, so that our people may be enabled to fulfill the mission assigned to it by the Creator.
Resisting conformity and developing some small eccentricities are among the steps to independence and self-confidence.
A craving for freedom and independence is generated only in a man still living on hope.

Bill Gosper famous quotes

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