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Competitors are invited to suggest similar aphorisms about computing, in matched pairs or singly. If not original, give the author and the documentary source. Only one entry per reader and no more than 200 words, please.
In the late 1950s Richard W. Hamming originated the famous aphorism, “The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers.” George E. Forsythe later suggested the modification. “The purpose of computing numbers is not yet in sight.”
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Weiss, E.A. (1988). Abacus Competition #1: Old and New Computing Aphorisms. In: Weiss, E.A. (eds) A Computer Science Reader. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8726-6_33
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