Busy Beaver/%CF%83 Complexity and Unprovability

Famous quotes containing the words busy, beaver and/or complexity:

    “The age we live in is a busy age; in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.”
    —Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832)

    “On the top of the Crumpetty Tree
    The Quangle Wangle sat,
    But his face you could not see,
    On account of his Beaver Hat.”
    —Edward Lear (1812–1888)

    “The price we pay for the complexity of life is too high. When you think of all the effort you have to put in—telephonic, technological and relational—to alter even the slightest bit of behaviour in this strange world we call social life, you are left pining for the straightforwardness of primitive peoples and their physical work.”
    —Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)