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Many of the successes of `fancy' mathematics are due to sociological and linguistic reasons. They are really high-school-algebra arguments in disguise.

— Doron Zeilberger

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Math is perfect (in principle), but mathematicians are not (because they are humans), hence the mathematics that (human) mathematicians do is influenced by the weltanschauung of the people around them.

Computerized Deconstruction. Appeared in Adv. Appl. Math. v. 31 (2003)

Regardless of whether or not God exists, God has no place in mathematics, at least in my book.

Programming is much much harder than doing mathematics.

Algorithms existed for at least five thousand years, but people did not know that they were algorithmizing. Then came Turing (and Post and Church and Markov and others) and formalized the notion.

Mathematics my foot! Algorithms are mathematics too, and often more interesting and definitely more useful.

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To rank the effort above the prize may be called love.

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The weak shows his strength and hides his weaknesses; the magnificent exhibits his weaknesses like ornaments.

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