A good notation has a subtlety and suggestiveness which at times make it almost seem like a live teacher.
A good notation has a subtlety and suggestiveness which at times make it almost seem like a live teacher.
Sometimes I write them down in musical notation as a trigger to remind me about certain directions to go. Or I can be specific about a sound I'm looking for.
The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation.
I often find that entrepreneurs think my theory is great. My interpretation is that they are people who weren't considered that smart in school because they didn't have good notation skills-you know, moving little symbols around.
I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.
During the process of stepwise refinement, a notation which is natural to the problem in hand should be used as long as possible.
Such is the advantage of a well constructed language that its simplified notation often becomes the source of profound theories.
By relieving the brain of all unnecessary work, a good notation sets it free to concentrate on more advanced problems, and, in effect, increases the mental power of the race.
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.
To speak about notation as the only way that you can guarantee structure of course is already very suspect.
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.
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