Computer Scientists Quotes

13 quotes by 12 authors

• Early on, when software was developed by computer scientists, just people working with computers, people passed around software because that was how you got computers… — Tim O'Reilly
• A computer is like a violin. You can imagine a novice trying first a phonograph and then a violin. The latter, he says, sounds terrible.… — Marvin Minsky
• For years, computer scientists were treating operating systems design as sort of an open-reserch issue, when the field's direction had been decided by commercial operations.… — David Gelernter
• A little-known truth: Every aspect of the world is fundamentally unpredictable. Computer scientists have long since proved this. — Rudy Rucker
• In 1992, one of my dearest friends, Anita Borg, came to me with an idea: a conference featuring women Computer Scientists. The conference would celebrate… — Telle Whitney
• One of our big goals in search is to make search that really understands exactly what you want, understands everything in the world. As computer… — Larry Page
• Mathematicians stand on each others' shoulders and computer scientists stand on each others' toes. — Richard Hamming
• In fact what I would like to see is thousands of computer scientists let loose to do whatever they want. That's what really advances the… — Donald Knuth
• Many computer scientists have fallen into the trap of trying to define languages like George Orwell's Newspeak, in which it is impossible to think bad… — Larry Wall
• Part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians and poets and artists and zoologists and historians who… — Steve Jobs
• Ultimately, it comes down to taste. It comes down to trying to expose yourself to the best things that humans have done and then try… — Steve Jobs
• The real excitement is collaborating with computer scientists and neuroscientists and starting to understand in detail how children learn so much so quickly. — Alison Gopnik
• Nuclear scientists lost their innocence when we used the atom bomb for the very first time. So we could argue computer scientists lost their innocence… — Mikko Hypponen

Who Wrote These Computer Scientists Quotes

12 authors contributed a total of 13 Computer Scientists Quotes as follows:

• 2 Computer Scientists Quotes by Steve Jobs
• 1 Computer Scientists Quote by Donald Knuth
• 1 Computer Scientists Quote by Larry Wall
• 1 Computer Scientists Quote by Alison Gopnik
• 1 Computer Scientists Quote by Mikko Hypponen
• 1 Computer Scientists Quote by Tim O'Reilly
• 1 Computer Scientists Quote by Marvin Minsky
• 1 Computer Scientists Quote by David Gelernter
• 1 Computer Scientists Quote by Rudy Rucker
• 1 Computer Scientists Quote by Telle Whitney
• 1 Computer Scientists Quote by Larry Page
• 1 Computer Scientists Quote by Richard Hamming