Famous quotes by Mathematicians

"The time has mainly gone on getting Inform into a decent shape for public use. I suppose the plot of 'Curses' makes a sequel conceivable when compared with, say, the plot of 'Hamlet', but none is planned"

Graham Nelson, Mathematician

"The most frequent complaint is that it's hard. True. It's a hard game to win, Also, many people ask me how to use the secret debugging commands, apparently under the impression that I'll tell them"

Graham Nelson, Mathematician

"The 'interactive fiction' format hasn't changed in any fundamental way since the early 1970s, in the same way that the format of the novel hasn't since 1700"

Graham Nelson, Mathematician

"Players very widely disagree with me about what's hard and what's easy. And in a way, 'I won, but it was a fight' is the best compliment a game can receive"

Graham Nelson, Mathematician

"If pushed, though, I'd say that the next stage will be reached when it, it's no longer true that about 75% of the best games were written in 1980's, on the way to that"

Graham Nelson, Mathematician

"I'm rather pleased with the new manuals. I see Inform now as a gauche young adult, having got past the stage of growing out of his shoes every few months"

Graham Nelson, Mathematician

"I try to make puzzles range all the way from easy to hard, and to leave many open at once"

Graham Nelson, Mathematician

"I like to employ a form of repetition, in which the same elements recur but in different and unexpected ways. Rather than being discarded as soon as they are understood or passed over"

Graham Nelson, Mathematician

"I don't really believe in 'directions' in art; the rope twists as you follow it, that's all"

Graham Nelson, Mathematician

"For a fortnight nobody at all emailed me, or posted a follow-up. Doesn't anyone care, I thought? It turned out my newsreader was broken, and hadn't posted at all"

Graham Nelson, Mathematician

"Eventually I found it had been working all along-but didn't show anything on screen until it had the first full page of text. I inserted 30 new lines, and suddenly my toy said 'hEllO woRlD'. An hour later I understood alphabet shifting rather better!"

Graham Nelson, Mathematician

"By the new year of 1994, it had grown up into Inform 4 and could produce games twice as large"

Graham Nelson, Mathematician

"A deliberate choice on my part was for the player to continue to find new possibilities in the early Attic rooms far into the game. I think this builds atmosphere, though it means there's no neat division of the prologue from the middle game"

Graham Nelson, Mathematician

"You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality"

Hermann Weyl, Mathematician

"I had a liberal arts education at Amherst College where I had two majors, mathematics and philosophy"

Stephen Cole Kleene, Mathematician

"As years passed away, I have formed the habit of looking back upon that former self as upon another person, the remembrance of whose emotions has been a solace in adversity and added zest to the enjoyment of prosperity"

Simon Newcomb, Mathematician

"Projective geometry is all geometry"

Arthur Cayley, Mathematician

"Here at Wisconsin we didn't get an undergraduate course in mathematical logic until the '60s"

Stephen Cole Kleene, Mathematician

"For example, the philosophers who were interested in logic were probably rather logical for mathematicians. But the ASL got us together, so we could talk to each other and publish in the same journal"

Stephen Cole Kleene, Mathematician

"Whenever a total eclipse of the sun was visible in an accessible region, parties were sent out to observe it"

Simon Newcomb, Mathematician

"My first undertaking in the way of scientific experiment was in the field of economics and psychology"

Simon Newcomb, Mathematician

"In a few years, all great physical constants will have been approximately estimated, and that the only occupation which will be left to men of science will be to carry these measurements to another place of decimals"

James C. Maxwell, Mathematician

"I tried reading Hilbert. Only his papers published in mathematical periodicals were available at the time. Anybody who has tried those knows they are very hard reading"

Alonzo Church, Mathematician

"In 1858 I received the degree of D. S. from the Lawrence Scientific School, and thereafter remained on the rolls of the university as a resident graduate"

Simon Newcomb, Mathematician

"My father was the most rational and the most dispassionate of men"

Simon Newcomb, Mathematician

"One must do no violence to nature, nor model it in conformity to any blindly formed chimera"

Janos Bolyai, Mathematician

"The job in Wisconsin was the first genuine offer of an academic job in a university which I received"

Stephen Cole Kleene, Mathematician

"I'm sure Church got some of his ideas from this trip to Europe"

Stephen Cole Kleene, Mathematician

"The time was not yet ripe for the growth of mathematical science among us, and any development that might have taken place in that direction was rudely stopped by the civil war"

Simon Newcomb, Mathematician

"The reports of the eclipse parties not only described the scientific observations in great detail, but also the travels and experiences, and were sometimes marked by a piquancy not common in official documents"

Simon Newcomb, Mathematician

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