I am firmly of the opinion that the Macintosh is Catholic and that DOS is Protestant. Indeed, the Macintosh is counterreformist an...d has been influenced by the methodical path of the Jesuits.... It is catechistic: the essence of revelation is dealt with via simple formulae and sumptuous icons. Everyone has a right to salvation. DOS is Protestant, or even Calvinistic. It allows free interpretation of scripture, demands difficult personal decisions, imposes a subtle hermeneutics upon the user, and takes for granted the idea that all can reach salvation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The true critic is a scrupulous avoider of formulae; he refrains from statements which pretend to be literally true; he finds fact... nowhere and approximation always.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds your stuff of any degree of fineness; but nevertheles...s, what you get out depends upon what you put in; and as the grandest mill in the world will not extract wheat- flour from peascods, so pages of formulae will not get a definite result out of loose data.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The French are a tremendously verbal race: they kill you with their assurances, their repetitions, their reasons, their platitudes..., their formulae, their propositions, their solutions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »