Busy Beaver/the Busy Beaver Function %cf%83

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

    “I do not wish to be any more busy with my hands than is necessary.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “This ferry was as busy as a beaver dam, and all the world seemed anxious to get across the Merrimack River at this particular point, waiting to get set over,—children with their two cents done up in paper, jail-birds broke lose and constable with warrant, travelers from distant lands to distant lands, men and women to whom the Merrimack River was a bar.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth.”
    —Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)