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♦ “LOOKED AT FROM THE OUTSIDE”: Kurt Gödel, “On Formally Undecidable Propositions of Principia Mathematica and Related Systems I” (1931), in Kurt Gödel: Collected Works, vol. 1, ed. Solomon Feferman (New York: Oxford University Press, 1986), 146.
♦ “A SCIENCE PRIOR TO ALL OTHERS”: Kurt Gödel, “Russell’s Mathematical Logic” (1944), in Kurt Gödel: Collected Works, vol. 2, 119.
♦ “ONE CAN PROVE ANY THEOREM”: Kurt Gödel, “On Formally Undecidable Propositions of Principia Mathematica and Related Systems I” (1931), 145.
♦ “CONTRARY TO APPEARANCES, SUCH A PROPOSITION”: Ibid., 151 n15.
♦ “AMAZING FACT”—“THAT OUR LOGICAL INTUITIONS”: Kurt Gödel, “Russell’s Mathematical Logic” (1944), 124.
♦ “A SUDDEN THUNDERBOLT FROM THE BLUEST OF SKIES”: Douglas R. Hofstadter, I Am a Strange Loop, 166.
♦ “THE IMPORTANT POINT”: John von Neumann, “Tribute to Dr. Gödel” (1951), quoted in Steve J. Heims, John von Neumann and Norbert Weiner (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1980), 133.
♦ “IT MADE ME GLAD”: Russell to Leon Henkin, 1 April 1963.
♦ “MATHEMATICS CANNOT BE INCOMPLETE”: Ludwig Wittgenstein, Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1967), 158.
♦ “RUSSELL EVIDENTLY MISINTERPRETS MY RESULT”: Gödel to Abraham Robinson, 2 July 1973, in Kurt Gödel: Collected Works, vol. 5, 201.
♦ HIS NAME WAS RECODED BY THE TELEPHONE COMPANY: Rebecca Goldstein, Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Gödel (New York: Atlas, 2005), 207.
♦ “YOUR BIO-MATHEMATICAL PROBLEMS”: Hermann Weyl to Claude Shannon, 11 April 1940, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress.
♦ “PROJECT 7”: David A. Mindell, Between Human and Machine: Feedback, Control, and Computing Before Cybernetics (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002), 289.
♦ “APPLYING CORRECTIONS TO THE GUN CONTROL”: Vannevar Bush, “Report of the National Defense Research Committee for the First Year of Operation, June 27, 1940, to June 28, 1941,” Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum, 19.
♦ “THERE IS AN OBVIOUS ANALOGY”: R. B. Blackman, H. W. Bode, and Claude E. Shannon, “Data Smoothing and Prediction in Fire-Control Systems,” Summary Technical Report of Division 7, National Defense Research Committee, vol. 1, Gunfire Control (Washington D.C.: 1946), 71–159 and 166–67; David A. Mindell, “Automation’s Finest Hour: Bell Labs and Automatic Control in World War II,” IEEE Control Systems 15 (December 1995): 72–80.
♦ “BELL SEEMS TO BE SPENDING ALL HIS ENERGIES”: Elisha Gray to A. L. Hayes, October 1875, quoted in Michael E. Gorman, Transforming Nature: Ethics, Invention and Discovery (Boston: Kluwer Academic, 1998), 165.
♦ “I CAN SCARCE BELIEVE THAT A MAN”: Albert Bigelow Paine, In One Man’s Life: Being Chapters from the Personal & Business Career of Theodore N. Vail (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1921), 114.
♦ “I FANCY THE DESCRIPTIONS WE GET”: Marion May Dilts, The Telephone in a Changing World (New York: Longmans, Green, 1941), 11.
♦ “NO MATTER TO WHAT EXTENT A MAN”: “The Telephone Unmasked,” The New York Times, 13 October 1877, 4.
♦ “THE SPEAKER TALKS TO THE TRANSMITTER”: The Scientific Papers of James Clerk Maxwell, ed. W. D. Niven, vol. 2 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1890; repr. New York: Dover, 1965), 744.
♦ “WHAT THE TELEGRAPH ACCOMPLISHED IN YEARS”: Scientific American, 10 January 1880.
♦ “INSTANTANEOUS COMMUNICATION ACROSS SPACE”: Telephones: 1907, Special Reports, Bureau of the Census, 74.
♦ “IT MAY SOUND RIDICULOUS TO SAY THAT BELL”: Quoted in Ithiel de Sola Pool, ed., The Social Impact of the Telephone (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1977), 140.
♦ “AFFECTATIONS OF THE SAME SUBSTANCE”: J. Clerk Maxwell, “A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field,” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society 155 (1865): 459.
♦ THE FIRST TELEPHONE OPERATORS: Michèle Martin, “Hello, Central?”: Gender, Technology, and Culture in the Formation of Telephone Systems (Montreal: McGill