Quotes
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MC: Gucchon, you win or you lose?
Gucchon: I don’t care.
“So we want to make it easy to write parallel programs…
We can’t, writing parallel programs is extremely difficult.”
- Joe Armstrong
“7 iterations is a good number.”
- numerical analysis student
“Nothing brings fear to my heart more than a floating point number.
Numerical analysis is the blackest art I know.”
- Gerald Sussman
“This program gets the wrong answer and performs very poorly, other than that it’s great.”
- Kathy Yelick
“There are lots of computations for which we still don’t have error analyses.
You run the computation and you pray.”
- William Kahan
“J.C.P. Miller had been computing for decades on hand-cranked machines and he was a devious old coot.”
- William Kahan
“I live 30 minutes away from everything, it’s wonderful.”
- anonymous, overheard
“We develop open source software in MATLAB.”
- a paper
“We disavow any knowledge of the existence of PDF files of Demmel’s book.”
provides link
“The minimum is always less than or equal to the maximum… um, I think”.
“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”
- fictional Einsten (written by Ernest Kinoy)
“There are a lot of theorems you can prove, but it’s worth proving what other people find interesting.”