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“[...] whether machines can think [...] is about as relevant as the question of whether submarines can swim.”
—Edsger Dijkstra
Conference talk: "The threats to computing science"

“Science [...] is a system of relations. [...] it is in the relations alone that objectivity must be sought; it would be vain to seek it in beings considered as isolated from one another.”
—Henri Poincaré
The Value of Science, Ch. 11, Sec. 6

“Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, everything must be said again.”
—André Gide
Treatise on Narcissus

“Most of the propositions and questions of philosophers arise from our failure to understand the logic of our language. And it is not surprising that the deepest problems are in fact not problems at all.”
—Ludwig Wittgenstein
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, Proposition 4.003

“If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.”
—Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Moral letters to Lucilius, Letter 71: On the supreme good

“If you’re thinking without writing, you only think you’re thinking.”
—Leslie Lamport
Slide deck “Thinking Above the Code” (2016)

“Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.”
—Karl Popper
Conjectures and Refutations, Ch. 1 , Sec. VII