Bill Gosper quotes
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“If arithmetic overflow is a fatal error, some fascist pig with a read-only mind is trying to enforce machine independence.”
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“It's your life story if you're a mathematician: every time you discover something neat, you discover that Gauss or Newton knew it in his crib.”
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“A data structure is just a stupid programming language.”
-- Bill Gosper
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Source : Agnes Martin (2005). “Schriften”, Cantz
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“Error sometimes supplies the surprise that makes life interesting.”
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“A craving for freedom and independence is generated only in a man still living on hope.”
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