Computer Science Quotes
73 quotes by 61 authors
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Perhaps the central problem we face in all of computer science is how we are to get to the situation where we build on top…
— Richard Hamming
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The best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my…
— Bill Gates
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There's an old story about the person who wished his computer were as easy to use as his telephone. That wish has come true, since…
— Bjarne Stroustrup
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Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter.
— Eric S. Raymond
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Too few people in computer science are aware of some of the informational challenges in biology and their implications for the world. We can store…
— Sergey Brin
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Science is supposedly the method by which we stand on the shoulders of those who came before us. In computer science, we all are standing…
— Gerald J. Popek
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The issues involved are sufficiently important that courses are now moving out of the philosophy departments and into mainstream computer science. And they affect everyone.…
— D. Michael Quinn
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The burgeoning field of computer science has shifted our view of the physical world from that of a collection of interacting material particles to one…
— Paul Davies
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Software Engineering is that part of Computer Science which is too difficult for the Computer Scientist.
— Friedrich L. Bauer
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Most papers in computer science describe how their author learned what someone else already knew.
— Peter Landin
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People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things that build on…
— Donald Knuth
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Coding is today's language of creativity. All our children deserve a chance to become creators instead consumers of computer science.
— Maria Klawe
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My background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups - development, testing, marketing,…
— Melinda Gates
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Computer science is one of the worst things that ever happened to either computers or to science.
— Neil Gershenfeld
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Computer Science is the only discipline in which we view adding a new wing to a building as being maintenance.
— Jim Horning
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In computer science, we stand on each other's feet.
— Brian Reid
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I don't know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
— Alan Kay
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Even when I was studying mathematics, physics, and computer science, it always seemed that the problem of consciousness was about the most interesting problem out…
— David Chalmers
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I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.
— Larry Wall
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If we suppose that many natural phenomena are in effect computations, the study of computer science can tell us about the kinds of natural phenomena…
— Rudy Rucker
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