The desire to economize time and mental effort in arithmetical computations, and to eliminate human liability to error is probably as old as the science of arithmetic itself.

  • -- Howard Aiken 霍华德·艾肯

在算术计算中节省时间和脑力的愿望,以及消除人类易犯错误的倾向,可能和算术科学本身一样古老。

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If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.

如果科学推理局限于算术的逻辑过程,我们对物理世界的理解就不会走得太远。人们不妨尝试完全利用概率数学来把握扑克游戏。

Well, you have absolutely no idea what a nightmare it was to be on a set, trying to figure out how I was going to find out what time it is, how I was going to get my meds, and at the same time not have it be obvious to someone.

嗯,你完全不知道一场噩梦在一组,试图找出我要找出是什么时间,我要让我的药物,同时没有很明显的人。

I don't think there's more than half-a-dozen cartoons that I've been really truly happy with in all the time I've been doing it.

我不认为有超过半打的漫画,我真正真正快乐的时候,我一直在做它。

What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.

人们所说的公正可能仅仅意味着漠不关心,而人们所说的偏袒可能仅仅意味着精神活动。

Whenever the work is itself light, it becomes necessary, in order to economize time, to increase the velocity.

只要工作本身是轻的,为了节省时间,就有必要增加速度。

Words for mental processes are all derived from physical things.

心理过程的词汇都来自于物理事物。

God does arithmetic.

上帝做算术。