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“So, here you are
too foreign for home
too foreign for here.
Never enough for both.”
― Questions for Ada
too foreign for home
too foreign for here.
Never enough for both.”
― Questions for Ada
“How is logic like a machine? Here is how one logician explained it around the turn of the twentieth century: "As a material machine is an instrument for economising the exertion of force, so a symbolic calculus is an instrument for economising the exertion of intelligence." Logic, just like a machine, was a tool for democratizing force: built with enough precision and skill, it could multiply the power of the gifted and the average alike.”
― A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age
― A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age
“We are not perfect human beings, nor do we have to pretend to be, but it is necessary for us to be the best version of ourselves we can be.”
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