"If it is to be effective as a tool of thought, a notation must allow convenient expression not only of notions arising directly from a problem, but also of those arising in subsequent analysis, generalization, and specialization."

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Source : "Notation as a Tool of Thought". Cvommunications of the ACM, 23 (8), (pp. 444 - 465), August 1980.

Kenneth E. Iverson

#Expression Quotes #Analysis Quotes #Tools Quotes

“All human actions are an attempt to meet needs.”
“... between government, business, and the public, there is a triangular community of interest. Clearly, it is in business' interest to shape its behavior to prevailing public values; it is more efficient to do so than not to do so. It is also clear that government is the high-cost alternative through which public values are imposed on corporations that do not accurately perceive these values.”
“Google is in a position where it doesn't even have to strive to become a hip, conscious choice. Brands are temporary fads. Functionality is forever. Google just has to 'be,' and everyone will end up there sooner or later.”
“Rituals are a good signal to your unconscious that it is time to kick in.”
“I love Sherlock Holmes. There's still an awful lot to steal from Conan Doyle. But within a tradition you can work in many different ways.”
“The secret point of money and power in America is neither the things that money can buy nor power for power's sake but absolute personal freedom, mobility, privacy.”
“I have never liked sex. I do not think I ever will. It just seems the opposite of love.”
“Sanity ... is the most profound moral option of our time.”

Source : Renata Adler (2013). “Speedboat”, p.8, New York Review of Books

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