Astronomy Quote by Douglas Adams

“And are you not,” said Fook, leaning anxiously forward, “a greater analyst than the Googleplex Star Thinker in the Seventh Galaxy of Light and…

— Douglas Adams

An astrolabe is relatively unknown in today's world. But, at the time, in the 13th century, it was the gadget of the day. It…

— Tom Wujec

“Of all the Programmers' planets, ours is the supercomputing golden child, the world that inexplicably provides enough power to light up the galaxy.”

— David Eagleman

Computer banks to rule the world Instruments to sight the stars.

— Megadeth

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

Computers do the calculating to allow people to transform the world.

— Conrad Wolfram

“The computer is incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid. Man is unbelievably slow, inaccurate, and brilliant. The marriage of the two is a force beyond…

— Muhammad Waseem

Computers are very powerful tools, but in the simulated world of the computer, everything has to be calculated.

— Margaret Wertheim

“A computer does two things, and two things only: it performs calculations and it remembers the results of those calculations.”

— John V. Guttag

From the time I was 7, when I purchased my first calculator, I was fascinated by the idea of a machine that could compute things.

— Michael Dell

Perhaps... some day the precision of the data will be brought so far that the mathematician will be able to calculate at his desk…

— Antoine Lavoisier

As marvelous as the stars is the mind of the person who studies them.

— Martin Luther King, Jr