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James Gosling

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first: 2020-09-24
most recent: 2020-09-24
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“You know, programming is all about logical structure. Understanding the patterns. that come out of computation, understanding sort of I mean, it's often like the path through the graph of possibilities to find a short route.”
2020-09-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #126 – James Gosling: Java, JVM, Emacs, and the Early Days of Computing · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, although Girdle's theorem The lesson I take from Girdle's theorem is not that There are things you can't know which. Fundamentally, what it says. But people want black and white answers. They want true or false. But if you allow a three state logic that is true false or maybe. Life's”
2020-09-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #126 – James Gosling: Java, JVM, Emacs, and the Early Days of Computing · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's like the only number that has destroyed a religion. Well, the Pythagoreans, they believed that all numbers were perfect and you could represent anything as a rational number. In that time period. This proof came out that there was no A rational fraction whose value was equal to the square root of two.”
2020-09-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #126 – James Gosling: Java, JVM, Emacs, and the Early Days of Computing · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“There's lots of things in math that's really beautiful. I used to consider myself really good at math and these days I consider myself really bad at math. I never really had a thing for the square root of two. But when I was a teenager. Was this book called The Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Numbers? Which, for some reason I read through and damn near memorized the whole thing. And I started this weird habit of when I was like. Filling out checks or paying for things with credit cards, I would want to make the receipt add up to an interesting number.”
2020-09-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #126 – James Gosling: Java, JVM, Emacs, and the Early Days of Computing · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source