Computer science Quotes · Page 2

Trees sprout up just about everywhere in computer science.

— Donald Knuth

Experience comes from bad judgment.

— Mark Twain

“Remember, though, that debugging is as much art as it is computer science [..]”

— Michael A. Vine

“Living by the wisdom of computer science doesn’t sound so bad after all. And unlike most advice, it’s backed up by proofs.”

— Brian Christian

The goal of Computer Science is to build something that will last at least until we've finished building it.

— William C. Brown

Theoretical Computer Science is just as useless as everything we mathematicians do.

— Jennifer Tour Chayes

To me, mathematics, computer science, and the arts are insanely related. They're all creative expressions.

— Sebastian Thrun

Both women and computer science are the losers when a geeky stereotype serves as an unnecessary gatekeeper to the profession.

— Cordelia Fine

“Remember, there are only two hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming, and off-by-one errors.”

— Anonymous

“What one programmer can do in one month, two programmers can do in two months.”

— Fred Brooks

I recommend computer science to people who practice meditation. The mental structures that are used in computer science are very similar exercises…

— Frederick Lenz

In much of computer science, I can easily 'auto-grade' your work and give you an instant meaningful feedback. I can't do this…

— Sebastian Thrun

A few years ago a friend said that I use to hunt and fish and build houses and things but now my…

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

I've been programming computers since elementary school, where they taught us, and I stuck with computer science through high school and college.

— Masi Oka

When the Bitcoin white paper emerged in 2008, it was completely revolutionary. The amount of concepts that had to come together in…

— Fred Ehrsam

! want to leverage the creativity of researchers across mathematics, statistics, data mining, computer science, biology, medicine, and the public at large.

— Tan Le

I considered law and math. My Dad was a lawyer. I think though I would have ended up in physics if I…

— Bill Gates

I can't be as confident about computer science as I can about biology. Biology easily has 500 years of exciting problems to…

— Donald Knuth

“In search," Urs (Hölzle) believed, "the discussion was really, How can we outdistance our current system and make it look laughable? That's…

— Douglas Edwards

Our camps and workshops offer a space where girls of color can learn computer science and coding principles alongside their peers, with…

— Kimberly Bryant

I think the combination of graduate education in a field like Computer Science and the opportunity to apply this in a work…

— Satya Nadella

Atlantis was a highly evolved civilization where the sciences and arts were far more advanced than one might guess. Atlantis was technologically…

— Frederick Lenz

Shiv Nadar University has five schools with 16 departments offering 14 undergraduate, 10 master's and 13 doctoral programmes. The demand for engineering…

— Shiv Nadar

The prerequisite that people have a scientific or engineering degree or a medical degree limits the number of female astronauts. Right now,…

— Julie Payette

“Well, writing novels is incredibly simple: an author sits down…and writes. Granted, most writers I know are a bit strange. Some, downright…

— Christopher Hopper

We are lucky in the United States to have our liberal arts system. In most countries, if you go to university, you…

— Martha C. Nussbaum

A lot of the parallel processing software we're currently developing for supercomputers is tantric.

— Frederick Lenz

I studied computer science and graphic design, yeah, so music was self-taught and a backburner thing, an obsessive hobby.

— Tycho

When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

At extremely high processing speeds we are able to find patterns of order in what other people would perceive as chaos.

— Frederick Lenz

Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.

— Larry Wall

I was an undergrad math major and a grad student in computer science. I'm hugely introverted, not atypical of math majors.

— Judith Faulkner

Computer Science is the only discipline in which we view adding a new wing to a building as being maintenance.

— Jim Horning

“As so often happens in computer science, we’re willing to sacrifice efficiency for generality.”

— Pedro Domingos

Just as computer science is missing from our school system, so is science fiction.

— Sal Khan

Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.

— John von Neumann

“Simple things should be simple, complex things should be possible.”

— Alan Kay

That's one of those things about being a computer science major: Valentine's Day is just another day.

— Jawed Karim

I never took a computer science course in college, because then it was a thing you just learned on your own.

— Mitchel Resnick

Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

— Edsger Dijkstra