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"No more than these machines need the mathematician know what he does."
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"Among all the machines, motorcar is my favorite machine."
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"The hardest thing is to go to sleep at night, when there are so many urgent things needing to be done. A huge gap exists between what we know is possible with today's machines and what we have so far been able to finish."
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"I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly."
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"The payoffs in showbiz seemed as random as a slot machine."
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"Normal is nothing more than a cycle on a washing machine."
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"It's great to just disappear, grab a suitcase, switch the answering machine on and just go somewhere else."
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"Flight by machines heavier than air is unpractical and insignificant, if not utterly impossible."
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"I was playing with the Aquabats, and then I quit to join a band called Suicide Machine in Detroit."
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"No more than these machines need the mathematician know what he does."
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"I have problems with machines which aren't gestural."
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"If one looks at the different problems of the integral calculus which arise naturally when one wishes to go deep into the different parts of physics, it is impossible not to be struck by the analogies existing."
Deep
"What is it indeed that gives us the feeling of elegance in a solution, in a demonstration?"
Elegance
"In the old days when people invented a new function they had something useful in mind."
People
"A small error in the former will produce an enormous error in the latter."
Error
"It has adopted the geometry most advantageous to the species or, in other words, the most convenient."
Geometry
"If that enabled us to predict the succeeding situation with the same approximation, that is all we require, and we should say that the phenomenon had been predicted, that it is governed by the laws."
Law
"Absolute space, that is to say, the mark to which it would be necessary to refer the earth to know whether it really moves, has no objective existence."
Earth
"If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living."
Life
"It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover."
Science
"One would have to have completely forgotten the history of science so as to not remember that the desire to know nature has had the most constant and the happiest influence on the development of mathematics."
History
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