Kenneth Appel quotes

The computer was, to the best of my feelings about the subject, not thinking like a mathematician, and it was much more successful, because it was thinking not like a mathematician.
-- Kenneth Appel

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Probability of human error is considerably higher than that of machine error.
-- Kenneth Appel

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Without computers we will be stuck only proving theorems that have short proofs.
-- Kenneth Appel

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I’ve been the same guy since day one. No matter how successful I am in life, I’m going to stay true to myself and stay humble and grounded. I feel like that’s where your success comes from. Once you get that big head, it’s over. You feel like you can’t be stopped. Staying humble is the only way you can be great.

We are apt to say that a foreign policy is successful only when the country, or at any rate the governing class, is united behind it. In reality, every line of policy is repudiated by a section, often by an influential section, of the country concerned. A foreign minister who waited until everyone agreed with him would have no foreign policy at all.

Latin food suffers like Chinese. You can do marginal Chinese and be successful. You can do crappy Mexican and be packed.

A successful film is a good film, and a non-successful film is a bad film. It's as simple as that.

If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth.

I am putting together a secular bible. My Genesis is when the apple falls on Newton's head.

I value science--none can prize it more, It gives ten thousand motives to adore: Be it religious, as it ought to be, The heart it humbles, and it bows the knee.

But it would be absolutely mistaken to regard a wealth of theoretical knowledge as characteristic proof for the qualities and abilities of a leader.

A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.