Unforeseen technological inventions can completely upset the most careful predictions. - Richard Hamming

The calculus is probably the most useful single branch of mathematics. ...I have found the ability to do simple calculus, easily and reliably, was the most valuable part of mathematics I ever learned.

While the problem of ai can be viewed as, “Which of all the things humans do can machines also do?,” I would prefer to ask the question in another form: “Of all of life’s burdens, which are those machines can relieve, or significantly ease, for us?

Probability and statistics are now so obviously necessary tools for understanding many diverse things that we must not ignore them even for the average student.