Tag archive for “Logic”
“The problem is that while logic is a powerful and effective programming tool, it is a pathetically weak and inappropriate interaction design tool.”
“The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.”
“Software is a thought process. To patent it is comparable to patenting induction or deduction.”
“And if you go too far up, abstraction-wise, you run out of oxygen. Sometimes smart thinkers just don’t know when to stop, and they create these absurd, all-encompassing, high-level pictures of the universe that are all good and fine, but don’t actually mean anything at all.”
“Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge.”
“If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.”
“A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join and flow with it.”
Problems worthy
of attack
prove their worth
by hitting back.
“When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only of how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.”
“We must beware of needless innovations, especially when guided by logic.”