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* ℙ contains the problems we can solve. ℕℙ symbolizes the problems man needs to solve to efficiently structure and optimize his world. The ℙ = ℕℙ question asks whether the computers built by man's ingenuity have the power to solve the problems formed by nature's complexity. | |||
* "The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is the lawgiver. No playwright, no stage director, no emperor, however powerful, has ever exercised such absolute authority to arrange a stage or field of battle and to command such unswervingly dutiful actors or troops." ― Joseph Weizenbaum | |||
* "A supercomputer is a machine for turning a compute-bound problem into an I/O-bound problem." --Ken Batcher | * "A supercomputer is a machine for turning a compute-bound problem into an I/O-bound problem." --Ken Batcher | ||
* "I object to doing things that computers can do." -- Olin Shivers | * "I object to doing things that computers can do." -- Olin Shivers | ||
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* "Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material." - Alan Kay. | * "Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material." - Alan Kay. | ||
* "Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen." - Edward V Berard | * "Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen." - Edward V Berard | ||
* "A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant." - Alan J. Perlis. | * "A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant." - Alan J. Perlis. | ||
* "A C program is like a fast dance on a newly waxed dance floor by people carrying razors." - Waldi Ravens. | * "A C program is like a fast dance on a newly waxed dance floor by people carrying razors." - Waldi Ravens. | ||