"The precision provided (or enforced) by programming languages and their execution can identify lacunas, ambiguities, and other areas of potential confusion in conventional [mathematical] notation."

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Source : "Math for the Layman" by Kenneth E. Iverson, Ch. 10, §D, www.cs.trinity.edu. 1999.

Kenneth E. Iverson

#Confusion Quotes #Execution Quotes #Language Quotes

“One of the biggest mistakes entrepreneurs make is that we lie to ourselves. We don't step back and look at ourselves like a competitor would.”

Source : "Mark Cuban Reveals The Best And Worst 'Shark Tank' Pitches And More". Interview with Jenna Goudreau, www.businessinsider.com. November 11, 2013.
“Memory fades, memory adjusts, memory conforms to what we think we remember.”

Source : FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Jul 04, 2016
“Structure builds minds into great Monuments.”
“Even by proving that a certain view is indispensable for living well, one proves merely that the view in question is a salutary myth: one does not prove it to be true.”
“The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.”
“Sometimes your whole life boils down to one insane move.”

Source : "Avatar". www.imdb.com. 2009.
“and how we are all preparing for that abrupt waking, and that calling, and that moment we have to say yes, except it will not come so grandly, so Biblically, but more subtly and intimately in the face of the one you know you have to love”
“I would like to see more control and more criticism coming from Europe. The constant expressions of friendship for former President Eduard Shevardnadze, who made some contribution to German unity, were counterproductive for our country.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de

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