Brian Hayes (scientist)

"I'm not a gambling person, but I've been around long enough and I know how to play it."

"By the way, the = notation was invented by Robert Recorde . He choose two parallel lines as a symbol of equality " because noe 2 thynges can be moare equalle."

"The absence of a golden rule for mattress flipping is a disappointment, but it does not pertend the demise of civilization. We can adapt; we can learn to live with it."

"I'm not a mathematician, but I've been hanging around with some of them long enough to know how the game is played."

"I discovered that the computer is not like the violin; it doesn't take inborn genius or a lifetime of practice to get sweet music out of it."

"How can we measure the effects if we can't even count the dead to the nearest million?"

"In 1948 John Archibald Wheeler, in a telephone conversation with his student Richard Feynman, proposed the delightful hypothesis that there is just one electron in the universe."

"The integers, the rationals, and the irrationals, taken together, make up the continuum of real numbers. It's called a continuum because the numbers are packed together along the real number line with…"