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Most people like to believe something is or is not true. Great scientists tolerate ambiguity very well. They believe the theory enough…
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True greatness is when your name is like ampere, watt, and fourier-when it's spelled with a lower case letter.
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Good teachers deserve apples; great teachers deserve chocolate. A favorite quotation, written in calligraphy on his office door.
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He who works with the door open gets all kinds of interruptions, but he also occasionally gets clues as to what the…
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If you don't work on important problems, it's not likely that you'll do important work.
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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…
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Science is concerned with what is possible while engineering is concerned with choosing, from among the many possible ways, one that meets…
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It may be said "In research, if you know what you are doing, then you shouldn't be doing it." In a sense,…
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These are the men who, without virtue, labour, or hazard, are growing rich, as their country is impoverished; they rejoice, when obstinacy…
— Samuel Johnson
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The NeXT purchase is too little too late. The Apple of the past was an innovative company that used software and hardware…
— Nathan Myhrvold
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Future is mobile computing - smartphones and tablets are just elements of it. The industry is on the verge of a whole…
— Thorsten Heins
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Mobile communications and pervasive computing technologies, together with social contracts that were never possible before, are already beginning to change the way…
— Howard Rheingold
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The object of geometry in all its measuring and computing, is to ascertain with exactness the plan of the great Geometer, to…
— Benjamin Peirce
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In 20 or 30 years, you'll be able to hold in your hand as much computing knowledge as exists now in the…
— Douglas Engelbart
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The computing field is always in need of new cliches.
— Alan Perlis
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Men are noisy, narrow-band devices, but their nervous systems have very many parallel and simultaneously active channels. Relative to men, computing machines…
— J. C. R. Licklider
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