Gary William Flake Quotes & Sayings

I like change, and I like being in the middle of change. — Gary William Flake

I knew, always, what I wanted to be. Even before I had my first computer, I wanted to be a computer scientist. — Gary William Flake

If we increase r [in a logistic map] even more, we will eventually force the system into a period-8 limit cycle, then a period-16 cycle, and so on. The amount that we have to increase r to get another period doubling gets smaller and smaller for each new bifurcation. This cascade of period doublings is reminiscent of the race between Achilles and the tortoise, in that an infinite number of bifurcations (or time steps in the race) can be confined to a local region of finite size. At a very special critical value, the dynamical system will fall into what is essentially an infinite-period limit cycle. This is chaos. — Gary William Flake