Quarrelsome quotations

[sawyl]

Writing in today's Guardian, David Hockney says:

The BBC's problem, which won't go away, is that there is no neutral viewpoint. Heisenberg's uncertainty principle is part of the basis of the mathematics that led to the computer, but it also stated that the observer affects the observed - no one is neutral.

While I don't profess to a deep knowledge of life and times of Werner H, I don't remember his being heavily involved computing theory, making me wonder if Hockney hasn't misattributed some else's work — maybe Godel's? — to Heisenberg.

Speaking of computers and confusions, doctor_squale has directed me to a fine article about the Viglen HPC facility at QMW, in which Alan Sugar is quoted as saying:

"The complexity of this thing" will far outstrip anything the commercial market had to offer

Strange. I've never considered complexity to be a benefit when considering HPC systems, but then again, what do I know?