"The fact that the same symbolic programming primitives work for those as work for math kinds of things, I think, really validates the idea of symbolic programming being something pretty general."

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Source : Interview with Hal Varian, www.stephenwolfram.com. 1996.

Stephen Wolfram

#Math Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“Pausing allows you to take a beat to take a breath in your life. As everybody else is rushing around like a lunatic out there, I dare you to do the opposite.”
“I don't know how much God has to do to get the attention of the politicians”
“Perhaps it's true that I'm very hard on myself, but that's better than exhibiting mediocre work... too few were satisfactory enough to trouble the public with.”
“Writing nonfiction is more like sculpture, a matter of shaping the research into the finished thing.”
“Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.”
“I'll be here in my home with three big screens. I'll be watching three games at a time, and when they're over, I'll look at three more.”
“Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up.”
“I love bookshelves, and stacks of books, spines, typography, and the feel of pages between my fingertips. I love bookmarks, and old bindings, and stars in margins next to beautiful passages. I love exuberant underlinings that recall to me a swoon of language-love from a long-ago reading, something I hoped to remember. I love book plates, and inscriptions in gifts from loved ones, I love author signatures, and I love books sitting around reminding me of them, being present in my life, being. I love books.”

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