Computable Quotes & Sayings

Maybe it was stupid and solipsistic, but I liked to think about me. I didn't want to be part of some trend. — Ned Vizzini

Recasting all complex social situations either as neatly defined problems with definite, computable solutions or as transparent and self-evident processes that can be easily optimized - if only the right algorithms are in place! - this quest is likely to have unexpected consequences that could eventually cause more damage than the problems they seek to address. — Evgeny Morozov

In Russia, the moment a person opens his mouth you know where he's from. There's the uniformity of experience of an individual in Russia. When you're about 7 years old you get into school and you get put in this factory or this bureaucracy or whatever. The options are computable. Here it's tremendously diverse. — Joseph Brodsky

According to my definition, a number is computable if its decimal can be written down by a machine. — S. Barry Cooper

If a person's around me talking about '92, or 2005, I get away from them quickly. I don't want to be around anybody talking about the past. — Juicy J

We're presently in the midst of a third intellectual revolution. The first came with Newton: the planets obey physical laws. The second came with Darwin: biology obeys genetic laws. In today's third revolution, were coming to realize that even minds and societies emerge from interacting laws that can be regarded as computations. Everything is a computation. — Rudy Rucker

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Did you seriously just use the word 'loins'? — J.D. Cunegan

If large numbers of people believe in freedom of speech, there will be freedom of speech, even if the law forbids it. But if public opinion is sluggish, inconvenient minorities will be persecuted, even if laws exist to protect them.
[Freedom of the Park, Tribune, 7 December 1945] — George Orwell

There are facts can poison you dead as arsenic. I have long known this to be true. There are facts can get you drunker than sipping whiskey straight. — Alice Randall

Why are you walking through the wood alone? — Lisa Carlisle

Taxes will eventually become a voluntary process, with the possible exception of real estate-the one physical thing that does not move easily and has computable value ... wait until that's all there is left to tax, when the rest of the things we buy and sell come from everywhere, anywhere, and nowhere. — Nicholas Negroponte