Notation Quotes

“Expressions”

“A good notation [is]... like a live teacher.”

“notation”

“Wikipedia: Notation”

“It is worth noting that the notation facilitates discovery. This, in a most wonderful way, reduces the mind's labour.”

“The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation.”

“Such is the advantage of a well-constructed language that its simplified notation often becomes the source of profound theories.”

“After all, quantity, like quality, is oppositional, which suggests a +/- notation. To determine which quantity is + and which - Sommers relies on the equivalences established by valid conversion.”

“We could, of course, use any notation we want; do not laugh at notations; invent them, they are powerful. In fact,mathematics is, to a large extent, invention of better notations.”

“Alphabetic notations represent the articulatory features of speech sounds by a composite formula of symbols indicating the active speech organs. One of the Phoenicians who has developed such symbols is Pike.”

“My being a teacher had a decisive influence on making language and systems as simple as possible so that in my teaching, I could concentrate on the essential issues of programming rather than on details of language and notation.”

“As the mother teaches her children how to express themselves in their language, so one Gypsy musician teaches the other. They have never shown any need for notation.”

“An important step in solving a problem is to choose the notation. It should be done carefully. The time we spend now on choosing the notation carefully may be repaid by the time we save later by avoiding hesitation and confusion.”

“The fact is that, while Leibniz did insist on a subject-predicate analysis of statements, this attitude was well thought out, and the failures of his logic are due only to his inability to devise an appropriate system of notation for his logical algorithm.”

“There are now two systems of notations, giving the same formal results, one of which gives them with self-evident force and meaning, the other by dark and symbolic processes. The burden of proof is shifted, and it must be for the author or the supporter of the dark system to show that it is in some way superior to the evident system.”

“More specifically, we must not say this in a language of "adequate notation" (6.122; also 3.325, 5.533, 5.534). In other words, in a logically adequate, or correct, notation—-a Begriflrchrift (4. l273)...a notation in which sentences consist only of simple names naming simple objects.”

“Traditional logic's failure to do so [incorporating relations into term logic] was due not to its syntax, but to (i) the absence of an adequate system of formal notation, and (ii) the failure to make explicit the logical forms of pronouns.”

“Peano's scheme [system of symbolization for logic] became the dominant system of notation for the majority of mathematical logicians; Russell's popularity and the influence of Principia Mathematica, which made use of Peano's notation, were mainly responsible for this.”

“Imagine someone so infatuated by a band that they have every different pressing of every album the band made. Most of the time, the only difference in the album is the matrix number or a different 'made in' notation on the back cover or label. This is enough to make some people extremely excited. Actually, much more than excited.”

“Language is music. Written words are musical notation. The music of a piece of fiction establishes the way in which it is to be read, and, in the largest sense, what it means. It is essential to remember that characters have a music as well, a pitch and tempo, just as real people do. To make them believable, you must always be aware of what they would or would not say, where stresses would or would not fall.”