The Purpose of Computing Is Insight, Not Numbers

two high-speed printers, and I particularly notice the users who almost daily cart away stacks of paper several inches thick. Now I can’t believe that anyone could, or does, read all that stuff-yet a tremendous quantity of numbers is produced. This may be a biased observation at the University, because probably 80°/0 of the computer time is devoted to student debugging, and that is a teaching function rather than research. Most of the rest of the time, however,