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If you think of your life as a kind of computation, it's quite abundantly clear that there's not going to be a final answer and there won't be anything particularly wonderful about having the computation halt!

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Rudy Rucker
American - Scientist
Born: March 22, 1946

All physical systems can be thought of as registering and processing information, and how one wishes to define computation will determine your view of what computation consists of.

Seth Lloyd

Mathematics is much more than computation with pencil and a paper and getting answers to routine exercises. In fact, it can easily be argued that computation, such as doing long division, is not mathematics at all. Calculators can do the same thing and calculators can only calculate they cannot do mathematics.

John A. Van de Walle

Computation involves going from a question to an answer. Mathematics involves going from an answer to a question.

Peter Hilton

The achievements of willpower are almost beyond computation. Scarcely anything seems impossible to the man who can will strongly enough and long enough.

Orison Swett Marden

But biology and computer science - life and computation - are related. I am confident that at their interface great discoveries await those who seek them.

Leonard Adleman

But the solution to the riddle of life and space and time lies outside space and time. For, as it should be abundantly clear by now, nothing inside a frame can state, or even ask, anything about that frame. The solution, then, is not the finding of an answer to the riddle of existence, but the realization that there is no riddle. This is the essence of the beautiful, almost Zen Buddhist closing sentences of the Tracticus: "For an answer which cannot be expressed the question too cannot be expressed. The riddle does not exist."

Paul Watzlawick

The Saviour said He was going to prepare us a place. How wonderful it will be is beyond human computation. Remember that in six days Christ made the heavens and earth and all that in them is.... If He made so many wonders in six days, then what beauties and marvels He has surely prepared during these 1900 years in which He has been preparing our mansions in the Father's House!

John R. Rice

Mathematics is no more computation than typing is literature.

John Allen Paulos

A computation is a process that obeys finitely describable rules.

Rudy Rucker

Understanding is, after all, what science is all about — and science is a great deal more than mindless computation.

Roger Penrose

It wasn't being an alcoholic - it was going wild. It happened when I got famous. It was like having my teens in my early thirties: blotting out your life, not having to think about anything.

Julie Walters

Lately I’ve been working to convince myself that everything is a computation.

Rudy Rucker

Lately I've been working to convince myself that everything is a computation.

Rudy Rucker

My knowledge of the human psyche is as yet imperfect. Certain areas won't yield to computation.

Poul Anderson

When the Idea, of any Pleasure strikes your Imagination... let that time be employed in making a just Computation between, the duration of the Pleasure, and that of the Repentance sure to follow it.

Epictetus

We have the industrial agriculturalists who try and make an argument that big is beautiful. But if you do the math, and particularly if you factor in that the price of oil is going to go through the roof, and so the price of transportation is going to go through the roof - making it abundantly clear that it's out of whack. The efficiency arguments are already crumbling, particularly if you actually include the cost of food pollution that these industries cause. They are tremendously unsustainable and tremendously inefficient.

Raj Patel

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