Bill Gosper Professions : MathematicianBorn : 1943 Browse All Authors Quotes From 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 independenceerrorspigs A data structure is just a stupid programming language. Bill Gosper datalanguagestupid 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 newtonlife-storystories Similar Authors Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch mathematician Brahmagupta mathematician Augustus De Morgan mathematician Augustin-Louis Cauchy mathematician Atle Selberg mathematician Arthur Cayley mathematicianAll Authors