"Ignoring the trees to see the forest doesn't mean that one is more important than the other--it just gives a different perspective."
"We have come to a turning point in the study of the theory of computation. We continue to speak of Turing machines, but our real focus from now on is on algorithms. That is, the Turing machine merely serves as a precise model for the definition of algorithm. We skip over the extensive theory of Turi"