Computer Science Quotes

73 quotes by 61 authors

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Software Engineering is that part of Computer Science which is too difficult for the Computer Scientist. — Friedrich L. Bauer
Most papers in computer science describe how their author learned what someone else already knew. — Peter Landin
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
Coding is today's language of creativity. All our children deserve a chance to become creators instead consumers of computer science. — Maria Klawe
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
Computer science is one of the worst things that ever happened to either computers or to science. — Neil Gershenfeld
Computer Science is the only discipline in which we view adding a new wing to a building as being maintenance. — Jim Horning
In computer science, we stand on each other's feet. — Brian Reid
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
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
I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age. — Larry Wall
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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