#computation

I have just gone over my comet computations again, and it is humiliating to perceive how very little more I know than I did seven years ago when I first did this kind of work. ↗

— Maria Mitchell

#ago #comet #computations #did #first

A computation is a process that obeys finitely describable rules. ↗

— Rudy Rucker

#obeys #process #rules

If you think of your life as a kind of computation, it's quite abundantly clear that there's not going to be a final answer and there won't be anything particularly wonderful about having the computation halt! ↗

— Rudy Rucker

#answer #anything #clear #computation #final

Lately I've been working to convince myself that everything is a computation. ↗

— Rudy Rucker

#computation #convince #everything #i #lately

If we suppose that many natural phenomena are in effect computations, the study of computer science can tell us about the kinds of natural phenomena that can occur. ↗

— Rudy Rucker

#computations #computer #computer science #effect #kinds

Computations are everywhere, once you begin to look at things in a certain way. ↗

— Rudy Rucker

#certain #certain way #computations #everywhere #look

We have lived through the flood time of fascism and of the nazism which ran its meteoric course at a cost to mankind in suffering and waste beyond all computation. ↗

— Emily Greene Balch

#computation #cost #course #fascism #flood