Carol Computes

Famous quotes containing the words carol and/or computes:

    Then bowed down the highest tree
    unto his mother’s hand;
    Then she cried, “See, Joseph,
    I have cherries at command.”
    —Unknown. The Cherry-Tree Carol (l. 26–28)

    Query: Whether the difference between a mere computer and a man of science be not, that the one computes on principles clearly conceived, and by rules evidently demonstrated, whereas the other doth not?
    George Berkeley (1685–1753)