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Rodas, vida e outras diversões matemáticas

"Como as outras ciências, a Matemática é uma espécie de jogo cujo adversário é o universo. Os melhores matemáticos e os melhores professores de matemática são obviamente aqueles que, para além de compreenderem as regras do jogo, também sabem desfrutar o prazer do jogo."

Martin Gardner, Rodas, vida e outras diversões matemáticas, Gradiva, 1992

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The concept of universities

I have always liked the concept of universities as they were in Ancient Greece, where folks who had something cool to say would just come and say it. It wasn't about recognition; the impetus was the thought that you were resonating with ideas. Donald E. Knuth

The best computer programs

"... The best computer programs are the ones in which the computer itself "disappears," in which you work directly on the problem without having to be aware of the computer." Donald Norman. in The Psychology of Everyday Things. -Basic Books, 1988, p. 180.