Quote of the day
It is by no longer having to think about things that civilisation progresses.
—Joseph E. Stoy, Denotational Semantics
It is by no longer having to think about things that civilisation progresses.
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This is the weblog of Brian Hayes.
I also write the Computing Science column in American Scientist, and I'm the author of Infrastructure: A Field Guide to the Industrial Landscape (W.W. Norton, 2005). A collection of my essays titled Group Theory in the Bedroom, and Other Mathematical Diversions was published in April by Hill and Wang.
January 10th, 2006 at 12:24 pm
Also: “Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.” — Alfred North Whitehead
January 10th, 2006 at 12:53 pm
Lest someone think that Stoy was a plagiarist, I should point out that the sentence I quote from Stoy’s book is followed immediately by a reference to Whitehead’s Introduction to Mathematics.