Dale Easley's Favorite Quotations

Press, W.H., S.A. Teukolsky, W.T. Vetterling, a

Numerical Recipes in Fortran

Press, W.H., S.A. Teukolsky, W.T. Vetterling, and B.P. Flannery

`Doesn't this inhibit creativity?' our students sometimes ask. Yes, just as Mozart's creativity was inhibited by the sonata form, or Shakespeare's by the metrical requirements of the sonnet. The point is that creativity, when it is meant to communicate, does well under the inhibitions of appropriate restrictions on format. [p.~9]