Computer Quote by Alan Perlis Download Open image “Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.” — Alan Perlis ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Computer Computer science Computers Embarrassed Science
Computer science is one of the worst things that ever happened to either computers or to science. — Neil Gershenfeld Copy Share Image
Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
Computer science is fascinating. As you study computer science, you will find that you develop your mind. It is literally like doing Buddhist exercises… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Computer science has as much to do with computers as astronomy has to do with telescopes. — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
Computer science inverts the normal. In normal science, you're given a world, and your job is to find out the rules. In computer science,… — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
Computer Science: A study akin to numerology and astrology, but lacking the precision of the former and the success of the latter. — Stan Kelly-Bootle Copy Share Image
Computer science is not just for smart 'nerds' in hoodies coding in basements. Coding is extremely creative and is an integral part of almost… — Reshma Saujani Copy Share Image
People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things that build… — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things that build… — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN. — Alan Perlis Copy Share Image
In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages. — Alan Perlis Copy Share Image
LISP programmers know the value of everything and the cost of nothing. — Alan Perlis Copy Share Image
I think that it's extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing. When it started out, it was an awful lot… — Alan Perlis Copy Share Image
Optimization hinders evolution. Everything should be built top-down, except the first time. Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it. — Alan Perlis Copy Share Image
Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it. — Alan Perlis Copy Share Image
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant. — Alan Perlis Copy Share Image
When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students. — Alan Perlis Copy Share Image
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God. — Alan Perlis Copy Share Image
Issac:"I dislike living in a world without Augustus Waters." Computer: "I don't understand-" Issac: "Me neither. Pause — John Green Copy Share Image
If you stood me in a costume next to a computer graphic of the same-looking character, I think there would be a difference. And… — Warwick Davis Copy Share Image
It's interesting that the greatest minds of computer science, the founding fathers, like Alan Turing and Claude Shannon and Norbert Wiener, they all looked… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
One of our big goals in search is to make search that really understands exactly what you want, understands everything in the world. As… — Larry Page Copy Share Image
We are beginning to see intimations of this in the implantation of computer devices into the human body. — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
I'm from the South, so I'm very old-fashioned and I'm not very computer savvy at all, but I'm getting it. I understand that, if… — Angie Harmon Copy Share Image
“To all the secret writers, late-night painters, would-be singers, lapsed and scared artists of every stripe, dig out your paintbrush, or your flute, or… — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
A little bit more than 50% of what you see on screen is handcrafted and the other 50% was about emulating these textures on… — Alex Abreu Copy Share Image
Well I'm trying to think what I put in... I think I put in 'why?' to see if I'd confuse the computer. — Karl Pilkington Copy Share Image
Our brains are great at knowing what to forget. We actually have to teach computers to do the same. — Kevin Maney Copy Share Image
Nor would anybody suspect. If was one thing all people took for granted, was conviction that if you feed honest figures into a computer,… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image