Bill Gosper Professions : Mathematician Born : 1943 Browse All Authors Top 3 quotes by Bill Gosper If arithmetic overflow is a fatal error, some fascist pig with a read-only mind is trying to enforce machine independence. Bill Gosper independence errors pigs A data structure is just a stupid programming language. Bill Gosper data language stupid It's your life story if you're a mathematician: every time you discover something neat, you discover that Gauss or Newton knew it in his crib. Bill Gosper newton life-story stories Similar Authors Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch mathematician Brahmagupta mathematician Augustus De Morgan mathematician Augustin-Louis Cauchy mathematician Atle Selberg mathematician Arthur Cayley mathematician All Authors