Thank Goodness We Don't Have

In The Good Old Days Physicists Repeated Each Other's Experiments, Just To Be Sure. Today They Stick To Fortran, So That They Can Share Each Other's Programs, Bugs Included.

Computer Science Is No More About Computers Than Astronomy Is About Telescopes, Biology Is About Microscopes Or Chemistry Is About Beakers And Test Tubes. Science Is Not About Tools. It Is About How We Use Them, And What We Find Out When We Do.

Mathematicians Are Like Managers - They Want Improvement Without Change.

When I Came Back From Munich, It Was September, And I Was Professor Of Mathematics At The Eindhoven University Of Technology. Later I Learned That I Had Been The Department's Third Choice, After Two Numerical Analysts Had Turned The Invitation Down; The Decision To Invite Me Had Not Been An Easy One, On The One Hand Because I Had Not Really Studied Mathematics, And On The Other Hand Because Of My Sandals, My Beard And My "arrogance" (whatever That May Be).

We Must Be Very Careful When We Give Advice To Younger People; Sometimes They Follow It!