Astronomy Quote by Steven Magee

“Her team had become NASA’s first computer programmers. The women still worked closely with the engineers, almost all of whom were men, but it…

— Nathalia Holt

Other job markets may lay claim to the title, but astronomy is actually the world's oldest profession.

— Phil Plait

Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

— Edsger Dijkstra

Computer scientists are the historians of computing.

— Gordon Bell

Computer science has as much to do with computers as astronomy has to do with telescopes.

— Edsger Dijkstra

“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

“Most professional astronomers that I know are frequent fliers.”

— Steven Magee

“our longstanding idea of a computer is obsolete.”

— Nicholas Carr

“Someday computers will make us all obsolete. (1975)”

— Bobby Fischer

“My interest in astronomy took me to the premier astronomical observatories in the world before I developed occupational diseases and became disabled at age…

— Steven Magee

“By the 1960s, the electronic computer had become an integral tool of science, technology, and business. Without its capacities for memorizing, calculating, comparing, and…

— Courtney G. Brooks, James M. Grimwood, Loyd S. Swenson

“In fact , we might as well say "proprietary", which ,in fact, was the byword of the old computer industry.”

— Andrew S. Grove