With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk.
– John von Neumann
Quotes
There are nine and sixty ways Kipling
“There are nine and sixty ways of constructing tribal lays, and every one of them is right.”
– Richard Kipling
Used in:
- The Master Algorithm
All happy families are alike Tolstoy
“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
– Leo Tolstoy in Anna Karenina
Anna Karenina on Project Gutenberg
I think, therefore I am Descartes
I think, therefore I am.
– René Descartes
Used in:
- The Master Algorithm
Civilization advances by extending the number Whitehead
Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.
– Alfred North Whitehead from An Introduction to Mathematics (1911) Chapter 5
Quoted in:
- The Master Algorithm
People: Alfred North Whitehead
The grand aim of all science Einstein
The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
– Albert Einstein
Quoted in:
- The Master Algorithm
People: Albert Einstein
Quote Hoffman Launch
If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late.
– Reid Hoffman