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The Purpose Of Computing Is Insight, Not Numbers. -- R.
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The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers.
-- R. W. Hamming, "Numerical Methods for Scientists and Engineers", 1973
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Quote #364 The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers. -- Richard W. Hamming, 1962
Per buck you get more computing action with the small computer. -- R. W. Hamming
You cannot have a science without measurement. -- R. W. Hamming
If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton In the sciences, we are now uniquely priviledged to sit side by side with the giants on whose shoulders we stand....
We scientists, whose tragic destiny it has been to make the methods of annihilation ever more gruesome and more effective
must consider it our solemn and transcendent duty to do all in our power in preventing these weapons from being used for the brutal purpose for which they were invented....
The less management demands of engineers and scientists, the greater their productivity.
-- Richard F. Moore...
Quote #667 Scientists build to learn; Engineers learn to build. -- F. Brook