Quotes about Computer science

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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
I don't know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measure — Alan Kay
Computers and mobile devices are becoming known for their inherent insecurities and the ability to damage the long term — Steven Magee
More importantly, it is difficult to study minds because we are mental beings. We have our own minds to maintain and pro — James Kennedy, Swarm Intelligence
The cost of electrons and photons is getting cheaper all the time! — T. Gilling, The STREAM TONE: The Future of Personal Computing?
Suppose whatever we can recognize we can find. We can if P=NP. — Lance Fortnow, The Golden Ticket: P, NP, and the Search for the Impossible
Unix is not so much a product as it is a painstakingly compiled oral history of the hacker subculture. It is our Gilgame — Neal Stephenson
Lilah did little more than sleep and eat and cry, which to me was the most fascinating thing in the entire universe. Why — Mike Brown, How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming
Code is not like other how-computers-work books. It doesn't have big color illustrations of disk drives with arrows show — Charles Petzold, Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software
It can be argued that the computer is humanity’s attempt to replicate the human brain. This is perhaps an unattainable g — Zubair Saleem Fazal
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
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
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