James H. Wilkinson

"Of course everything in computerology is new; that is at once its attraction, and its weakness. Only recently I learned that computers are revolutionizing astrology. Horoscopes by computer!"

"In the early days of the computer revolution computer designers and numerical analysts worked closely together and indeed were often the same people. Now there is a regrettable tendency for numerical …"

"He was particularly fond of little programming tricks and would chuckle with boyish good humor at any little tricks I may have used."

"Turing had a strong predeliction for working things out from first principles, usually in the first instance without consulting any previous work on the subject, and no doubt it was this habit which g…"

"Very belatedly in 1947, Darwin agreed to set up a very small electronics group It was not easy to have the imagination to foresee that computers were to become one of the most important developments o…"

"Numerical analysis has begun to look a little square in the computer science setting, and numerical analysts are beginning to show signs of losing faith in themselves. Their sense of isolation is acce…"