Bill Gaede
13 quotes
Biography
Guillermo "Bill" Gaede is an Argentine engineer and programmer who is best known for Cold War industrial spying on behalf of Cuba, Iran, and China conducted while he worked at Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and Intel Corporation (Intel). While at AMD, he provided the Cuban government with technical information from the semiconductor industry, which the Cubans passed on to the Soviet bloc, primarily to the Soviet Union and East Germany.
"Define the word exist, and you'll know whether God exists."
"Whereas a novice makes moves until he gets checkmated (proof), a Grand Master realizes 20 moves in advance that it’s futile to continue playing (conceptualizing)."
"College is the grinding machine of the Mathematical Establishment, a conveyor belt that takes individuals from one cookie cutter to another so that the product comes within tight control limits out of the assembly line."
"A mathematician is an individual who believes that prophesying that his dog will die if he deprives it of food constitutes a prediction."
"Atheism is the opium of the mathematicians. Atheism is the religion of Mathematics."
"Proof' is the hallmark of religion."
"Science is not about making predictions or performing experiments. Science is about explaining."
"A mathematician believes that describing the speed of Mercury with equations amounts to science."
"There are problems humans cannot solve, to wit: density dependent birth rates, loss of genetic diversity, the overturning of his population pyramid, traveling to the nearest star, and the extinction of Man."
"A mathematician says that an electromagnetic wave travels from Andromeda to your eye and that it also extends from Andromeda to your eye."
"A mathematician tells you that the wall of warped space prevents the Moon from flying out of its orbit yet can't tell you why an astronaut can go back and forth across that same space."
"It is the definition of the word 'object' which destroys all religions."
"A mathematician makes plans to travel backwards in time through a wormhole to a parallel universe when he can't even make it to Mars with the fastest rocket on hand today."