“At Harvard Business School, the great quantitative thing that bonds the first-year class together is what they call decision tree theory. All they do is take high school algebra and apply it to real-life problems. And the students love it. They’re amazed to find that high school algebra works in life.”
— Charlie Munger Primary source“Mankind invented a system to cope with the fact that we are so intrinsically lousy at manipulating numbers. It’s called the graph.”
— Charlie Munger Primary source“However good you were at math, that’s how good you’d be at other subjects.”
— Bill Gates Primary source“One reason why mathematics enjoys special esteem, above all other sciences, is that its propositions are absolutely certain and indisputable, while those of all other sciences are to some extent debatable and in constant danger of being overthrown by newly discovered facts.”
— Albert Einstein Primary source“If you don’t get elementary probability into your repertoire, you go through a long life like a one-legged man in an ass-kicking contest.”
— Charlie Munger Primary source“Many computer programs of the present day are of inordinate size—many thousands of pages of closely printed text. Mathematics has no tradition of dealing with expressions on this scale.”
— Tony Hoare Primary sourceComputer Programming Scaling Science Intellect Business