![]() ![]() ![]() And our friend Lawrence is running alongside the train, trying to keep up with us-it’s not that we’re smarter than he is, necessarily, but that he’s a farmer who didn’t get a ticket. "Shut up about Leibniz for a moment, Rudy, because look here: You-Rudy-and I are on a train, as it were, sitting in the dining car, having a nice conversation, and that train is being pulled along at a terrific clip by certain locomotives named The Bertrand Russell and Riemann and Euler and others. Cryptonomicon (Neal Stephenson) - Highlight Loc. Now he had learned that a machine, simple in its design, could produce results of infinite complexity. ![]() Lawrence had supposed that the machine must be at least as complicated as the most intricate fugue that could be played on it. Mechanically, all of this was handled in a fashion that was perfectly clear, simple, and logical. ![]()
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