Primitive Recursive Functions

Famous quotes containing the words primitive and/or functions:

    “The glory of the farmer is that, in the division of labors, it is his part to create. All trade rests at last on his primitive activity.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “Those things which now most engage the attention of men, as politics and the daily routine, are, it is true, vital functions of human society, but should be unconsciously performed, like the corresponding functions of the physical body.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)