Jeremy Avigad in Computability and Incompleteness (2002)

... in a sense,computability is similar to the Supreme Court Justice Stewart's characterization of pornography, it may be hard to define precisely, but I know it when I see it."

Not quite from a 'paper' but floating around in the net:

"Who has not been amazed to learn that the function $y = e^x$, like a phoenix rising from its own ashes, is its own derivative?" -- Francois le Lionnais

Jeremy Avigad in Computability and Incompleteness (2002)

... in a sense, computability is similar to the Supreme Court Justice Stewart's characterization of pornography, it may be hard to define precisely, but I know it when I see it."

Not quite from a 'paper' but floating around in the net:

"Who has not been amazed to learn that the function $y = e^x$, like a phoenix rising from its own ashes, is its own derivative?" -- Francois le Lionnais

Jeremy Avigad in Computability and Incompleteness (2002)

... in a sense,computability is similar to the Supreme Court Justice Stewart's characterization of pornography, it may be hard to define precisely, but I know it when I see it."

Not quite from a 'paper' but floating around in the net:

"Who has not been amazed to learn that the function y = e^x, like a phoenix rising from its own ashes, is its own derivative?" -- Francois le Lionnais

Jeremy Avigad in Computability and Incompleteness (2002)

... in a sense,computability is similar to the Supreme Court Justice Stewart's characterization of pornography, it may be hard to define precisely, but I know it when I see it."

Not quite from a 'paper' but floating around in the net:

"Who has not been amazed to learn that the function $y = e^x$, like a phoenix rising from its own ashes, is its own derivative?" -- Francois le Lionnais