#thematic

Never had any mathematical conversations with anybody, because there was nobody else in my field. ↗

— Alonzo Church

#anybody #because #conversations #else #field

Well it was not exactly a dissertation in logic, at least not the kind of logic you would find in Whitehead and Russell's Principia Mathematica for instance. It looked more like mathematics; no formalized language was used. ↗

— Alonzo Church

#exactly #find #instance #kind #language

The social sciences, I thought, needed the same kind of rigor and the same mathematical underpinnings that had made the "hard" sciences so brilliantly successful. ↗

— Herbert Simon

#had #hard #i #kind #made

We in science are spoiled by the success of mathematics. Mathematics is the study of problems so simple that they have good solutions. ↗

— Whitfield Diffie

#mathematics #problems #science #simple #solutions

Mathematicians are like managers - they want improvement without change. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#improvement #like #managers #mathematicians #want

Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#better #branches #difficult #had #mathematicians

God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world. ↗

— Paul Dirac

#creating #god #mathematics #used #world

The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#human #human thought #ladder #mathematician #reached

First rate mathematicians choose first rate people, but second rate mathematicians choose third rate people. ↗

— Andre Weil

#first #mathematicians #people #rate #second

Beyond basic mathematical aptitude, the difference between good programmers and great programmers is verbal ability. ↗

— Marissa Mayer

#aptitude #basic #between #beyond #difference