The ocean is a Turing machine, the sand is its tape; the water reads the marks in the sand and sometimes erases them and — Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon
The ocean is a Turing machine, the sand is its tape; the water reads the marks in the sand and sometimes erases them and — Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon
The ocean is a Turing machine, the sand is its tape; the water reads the marks in the sand and sometimes erases them and — Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon
The ocean is a Turing machine, the sand is its tape; the water reads the marks in the sand and sometimes erases them and — Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon
The ocean is a Turing machine, the sand is its tape; the water reads the marks in the sand and sometimes erases them and — Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon
The ocean is a Turing machine, the sand is its tape; the water reads the marks in the sand and sometimes erases them and — Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon
The ocean is a Turing machine, the sand is its tape; the water reads the marks in the sand and sometimes erases them and — Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon
The ocean is a Turing machine, the sand is its tape; the water reads the marks in the sand and sometimes erases them and — Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon
The ocean is a Turing machine, the sand is its tape; the water reads the marks in the sand and sometimes erases them and — Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon
The ocean is a Turing machine, the sand is its tape; the water reads the marks in the sand and sometimes erases them and — Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon
The ocean is a Turing machine, the sand is its tape; the water reads the marks in the sand and sometimes erases them and — Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon
The ocean is a Turing machine, the sand is its tape; the water reads the marks in the sand and sometimes erases them and — Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon
The ocean is a Turing machine, the sand is its tape; the water reads the marks in the sand and sometimes erases them and — Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon
The ocean is a Turing machine, the sand is its tape; the water reads the marks in the sand and sometimes erases them and — Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon
The ocean is a Turing machine, the sand is its tape; the water reads the marks in the sand and sometimes erases them and — Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon
The ocean is a Turing machine, the sand is its tape; the water reads the marks in the sand and sometimes erases them and — Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon
The ocean is a Turing machine, the sand is its tape; the water reads the marks in the sand and sometimes erases them and — Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon
The ocean is a Turing machine, the sand is its tape; the water reads the marks in the sand and sometimes erases them and — Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon
The ocean is a Turing machine, the sand is its tape; the water reads the marks in the sand and sometimes erases them and — Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon
The ocean is a Turing machine, the sand is its tape; the water reads the marks in the sand and sometimes erases them and — Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon
The ocean is a Turing machine, the sand is its tape; the water reads the marks in the sand and sometimes erases them and — Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon
The ocean is a Turing machine, the sand is its tape; the water reads the marks in the sand and sometimes erases them and — Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon
The ocean is a Turing machine, the sand is its tape; the water reads the marks in the sand and sometimes erases them and — Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon
The ocean is a Turing machine, the sand is its tape; the water reads the marks in the sand and sometimes erases them and — Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon
The ocean is a Turing machine, the sand is its tape; the water reads the marks in the sand and sometimes erases them and — Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon
The ocean is a Turing machine, the sand is its tape; the water reads the marks in the sand and sometimes erases them and — Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon
The ocean is a Turing machine, the sand is its tape; the water reads the marks in the sand and sometimes erases them and — Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon
The ocean is a Turing machine, the sand is its tape; the water reads the marks in the sand and sometimes erases them and — Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon
The ocean is a Turing machine, the sand is its tape; the water reads the marks in the sand and sometimes erases them and — Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon
The ocean is a Turing machine, the sand is its tape; the water reads the marks in the sand and sometimes erases them and — Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon
Download Customize

The ocean is a Turing machine, the sand is its tape; the water reads the marks in the sand and sometimes erases them and sometimes carves new ones with tiny currents that are themselves a response to the marks.

— Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon
Pin Share Tweet Telegram
Topics
computer science humor inspirational math ocean

More “Computer science” Quotes

The business we're in is more sociological than technological, more dependent on workers' abilities to communicate with — Tom DeMarco, Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams
An algorithm must be seen to be believed. — Donald Ervin Knuth, Leaders in Computing: Changing the digital world
Seemingly innocuous language like 'Oh, I'm flexible' or 'What do you want to do tonight?' has a dark computational under — Brian Christian, Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
Well, writing novels is incredibly simple: an author sits down…and writes.Granted, most writers I know are a bit strange — Christopher Hopper
A few years ago a friend said that I use to hunt and fish and build houses and things but now my whole life revolved aro — Stanley Victor Paskavich, Return to Stantasyland
Overstimulation has been the real drawback. I need to find ways to stop thinking about analysis of algorithms, in order — Donald Ervin Knuth, Selected Papers on Computer Science
jQuery is by far the most widely used library for JavaScript. It is used on more than 50% of websites. Many frameworks, — Robert Duchnik, jQuery Plugin Development In 30 Minutes
believe the power of jQuery is highly underutilized. Most developers will take advantage of its shortcuts and CSS select — Robert Duchnik, jQuery Plugin Development In 30 Minutes
Reusability is key in reducing bugs and coding quickly. The more I use a piece of code, the more confident and familiar — Robert Duchnik, jQuery Plugin Development In 30 Minutes
In my experience, requirements change quite often, or new situations will arise that weren’t anticipated at the start of — Robert Duchnik, jQuery Plugin Development In 30 Minutes
Ultimately, I try to think of my application’s main codebase as just stringing together various components and code from — Robert Duchnik, jQuery Plugin Development In 30 Minutes
I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun. ... What you know about computing other people will le — Alan J. Perlis, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs