Brian Hayes (scientist)

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

"Empires come and go; so do ideologies and even religions, but war marches on through it all."