This post is a collection of quotes about NumPy (initially released in 2006). There are 3 quotes listed below. License: CC BY-SA 3.0
1. "The Python programming language was not originally designed for numerical computing, but attracted the attention of the scientific and engineering community early on." (Wikipedia: NumPy, 1.10.23 UTC 18:00)
2. "In 2005, Travis Oliphant created NumPy by incorporating features of the competing Numarray into Numeric, with extensive modifications." (Wikipedia: NumPy, 1.10.23 UTC 18:00)
3. "NumPy targets the CPython reference implementation of Python, which is a non-optimizing bytecode interpreter. Mathematical algorithms written for this version of Python often run much slower than compiled equivalents due to the absence of compiler optimization. NumPy address the slowness problem partly by providing multidimensional arrays and functions and operators that operate efficiently on arrays; using these requires rewriting some code, mostly inner loops, using NumPy." (Wikipedia: NumPy, 1.10.23 UTC 18:00)
