All Quotes By Tag: Prediction

“As soon as an Analytical Engine exists, it will necessarily guide the future course of the science. Whenever any result is sought by its aid, the question will then arise — by what course of calculation can these results be arrived at by the machine in the shortest time?”

“Science is not about making predictions or performing experiments. Science is about explaining.”

“It takes a huge investment in introspection to learn that the thirty or more hours spent “studying” the news last month neither had any predictive ability during your activities of that month nor did it impact your current knowledge of the world.”

“Whereas a novice makes moves until he gets checkmated (proof), a Grand Master realizes 20 moves in advance that it’s futile to continue playing (conceptualizing).”

“A mathematician is an individual who believes that prophesying that his dog will die if he deprives it of food constitutes a prediction.”

“The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.”