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Lately I've been working to convince myself that everything is a computation.

Computations are everywhere, once you begin to look at things in a certain way.

They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.

You don't have to be a mathematician to have a feel for numbers.

Computing technology started out as number-crunching.

The most important thing in arithmetic is not the shapes of the numbers but the reality living in them. This living reality has much more meaning for the spiritual world than what lives in reading and writing.

Numbers have life; they're not just symbols on paper.

By all means, have you give great attention to your arithmetic, as its advantages are so many and important.

Aesthetics - rather than reason - shapes our thought processes. First comes aesthetics, then logic. 'Thinking in Numbers' is not about an attempt to impress the reader but to include the reader, draw the reader in, by explaining my experiences - the beauty I feel in a prime number, for example.

Insight enables you make sure you don't allow negative beliefs to get permanently set in your thinking - just the same way you wouldn't want fractured bones to be permanently set into place.