Richard Hamming Quotes
1915–1998 United States
Richard Wesley Hamming (February 11, 1915 – January 7, 1998) was an American mathematician whose work had many implications for computer science and telecommunications. He received the 1968 Turing Award "for his work on numerical methods, automatic coding systems, and error-detecting and error-correcting codes."
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The idea that theorems follow from the postulates does not correspond to simple observation.
Typing is no substitute for thinking.
Are you sure you are not merely "programmed" in life by what by chance events happens to you?
There is simply too much known to continue the older approach of giving detailed results.
How in the middle of a computation could I know, or the machine discover, if the hypothesis is true?
The beauty of mathematics often makes the subject matter much more attractive and easier to master.
Science is supposed to be cumulative, not almost endless duplication of the same kind of things.
Teachers should prepare the student for the student's future, not for the teacher's past.
Unforeseen technological inventions can completely upset the most careful predictions.
Either you will be a leader, or a follower, and my goal is for you to be a leader.
It is obvious: The past was once the future and the future will become the past.
If the hypothesis were this weak, would I dare to try to compute the answer?
Perhaps thinking should be measured not by what you do but by how you do it.
Calculus systematically evades a great deal of numerical calculation.
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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Richard Hamming (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.