9 Quotes About Computer-Science

Take a look at the collection of computer science quotes below. Computer science is the study of using computers and information technology for solving problems, or to create new solutions. The term “computer science” is often used to refer specifically to this modern era of computing beginning with the invention of the stored-program computer in the 1940s and continuing up to the present day.

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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.... What you know about computing other people will learn. Don’t feel as if the key to successful computing is only in your hands. What’s in your hands I think and hope is intelligence: the ability to see the machine as more than when you were first led up to it, that you can make it more. Alan J. Perlis
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Suppose whatever we can recognize we can find. We can if P=NP. Lance Fortnow
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Unix is not so much a product as it is a painstakingly compiled oral history of the hacker subculture. It is our Gilgamesh epic: a living body of narrative that many people know by heart, and tell over and over again–making their own personal embellishments whenever it strikes their fancy. The bad embellishments are shouted down, the good ones picked up by others, polished, improved, and, over time, incorporated into the story. […] Thus Unix has slowly accreted around a simple kernel and acquired a kind of complexity and asymmetry about it that is organic, like the roots of a tree, or the branchings of a coronary artery. Understanding it is more like anatomy than physics. Neal Stephenson
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It can be argued that the computer is humanity’s attempt to replicate the human brain. This is perhaps an unattainable goal. However, unattainable goals often lead to outstanding accomplishment. Zubair Saleem Fazal
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The business we're in is more sociological than technological, more dependent on workers' abilities to communicate with each other than their abilities to communicate with machines. Tom DeMarco
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The ocean is a Turing machine, the sand is its tape; the water reads the marks in the sand and sometimes erases them and sometimes carves new ones with tiny currents that are themselves a response to the marks. Neal Stephenson
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A few years ago a friend said that I use to hunt and fish and build houses and things but now my whole life revolved around my computer I replied "But my computer revolves around the world Stanley Victor Paskavich
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Overstimulation has been the real drawback. I need to find ways to stop thinking about analysis of algorithms, in order to do various other things that human beings ought to do. Donald Ervin Knuth