Norman R. Augustine Quotes

"Try another Subtraction sum. Take a bone from a dog: what remains?" [asked the Red Queen] Alice considered. "The bone wouldn't remain, of course, if I took it-and the dog wouldn't remain; it would come to bite me-and I'm sure I shouldn't remain!" "Then you think nothing would remain?" said the Red Queen. "I think that's the answer." "Wrong, as usual," said the Red Queen, "the dog's temper would remain."

I think everyone should get a little exposure to computer science because it really forces you to think in a slightly different way, and it's a skill that you can apply in life in general, whether you end up in computer science or not.

I actually hate programming, but I love solving problems.

Building Oracle is like doing math puzzles as a kid.

Programming allows you to think about thinking, and while debugging you learn learning.

Even in the most purely logical realms, it is insight that first arrives at what is new.

Learning to write programs stretches your mind, and helps you think better, creates a way of thinking about things that I think is helpful in all domains.

We've tended to forget that no computer will ever ask a new question.

At issue is not only knowledge of the world but our survival as individuals and as a species. All the basic technologies ever invented by humans to feed and protect themselves depend on a relentless commitment to hard-nosed empiricism: you cannot assume that your arrowheads will pierce the hide of a bison or that your raft will float just because the omens are propitious and you have been given supernatural reassurance that they will. You have to be sure.

Do you have a brain? Then you can think your way out of it. The reason we have brains is so we can figure out how to do things.

Instead of seeking to pinpoint blame, seek to understand cause.

Mathematical reasoning may be regarded.

The grand thing is to be able to reason backwards.

Thinking. A process by which I use my brain to make a rational decision.

Boros is not with the team today because he's attending his daughter's funeral. Oh, wait, it's her wedding.

Geometry is beautifully logical, and it teaches you how to think and prove that things are so, step by step by step. Proofs are excellent lessons in reasoning. Without logic and reasoning, you are dependent on jumping to conclusions or - worse - having empty opinions.

I'm not some anti-technology person. I think it's often how people would assume that if they don't know me.

Get to the heart of what is before you and continue to express yourself as logically as possible.

The answer is inside your head; it's easy to find if you take it logically.

Logic is the hygiene the mathematician practices to keep his ideas healthy and strong.

With method and logic one can accomplish anything.

When I come upon anything-in Logic or in any other hard subject-that entirely puzzles me, I find it a capital plan to talk it over, aloud, even when I am all alone. One can explain things so clearly to one's self! And then, you know, one is so patient with one's self: one never gets irritated at one's own stupidity!

[Smart] is an elusive concept. There's a certain sharpness, an ability to absorb new facts. To ask an insightful question. To relate to domains that may not seem connected at first. A certain creativity that allows people to be effective.

Geometry enlightens the intellect and sets one's mind right. All of its proofs are very clear and orderly. It is hardly possible for errors to enter into geometrical reasoning, because it is well arranged and orderly. Thus, the mind that constantly applies itself to geometry is not likely to fall into error. In this convenient way, the person who knows geometry acquires intelligence.

He was a 'how' thinker, not an 'if' thinker.