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“Lawrence immediately saw that it was a trick question. You would have to be some kind of idiot to make the facile assumption that the current would add or subtract 5 miles per hour to or from the speed of the boat.”
― Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon

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“The ocean is a Turing machine, the sand is its tape; the water reads the marks in the sand and sometimes erases them and sometimes carves new ones with tiny currents that are themselves a response to the marks.”
― Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon

tags: computer-science, humor, inspirational, math, ocean

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