Computer Science Quotes - Page 6

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

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Telescopes, Computer, Astronomy

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• I have met bright students in computer science who have never seen the source code of a large program. They may be good at writing small programs, but they can't begin to learn the different skills of writing large ones if they can't see how others have done it.

  Richard Stallman

  Writing, Skills, Different

  Richard Stallman (2002). “Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman”, p.102, Lulu.com

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• Know what you are talking about.

  Pope John Paul II

  Knowledge, Knowing Jesus, Talking

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• Computer science is fascinating. As you study computer science, you will find that you develop your mind. It is literally like doing Buddhist exercises all day long.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Exercise, Science

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• I fear - as far as I can tell - that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.

  Alan Kay

  Training, Degrees, Java

  ACM Queue, Volume 2, issue 9, queue.acm.org. December 27, 2004.

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• Premature optimization is the root of all evil in programming.

  Tony Hoare

  Roots, Evil, Simplicity

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• In computer science, we stand on each other's feet.

  Brian Reid

  Success, Feet, Intellectual

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• I was never as focused in math, science, computer science, etcetera, as the people who were best at it. I wanted to create amazing screensavers that did beautiful visualizations of music. It's like, "Oh, I have to learn computer science to do that."

  Kevin Systrom

  Beautiful, Math, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Remember how quickly our field [computer science] changes. That's why you want to focus on learning things that don't change: how to work well with other people, how to carefully assess a client's real - as opposed to perceived - needs, and things like that.

  Randy Pausch

  Real, Science, People

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• It's interesting that the greatest minds of computer science, the founding fathers, like Alan Turing and Claude Shannon and Norbert Wiener, they all looked at chess as the ultimate test. So they thought, "Oh, if a machine can play chess, and beat strong players, set aside a world champion, that would be the sign of a dawn of the AI era." With all due respect, they were wrong.

  Garry Kasparov

  Strong, Father, Player

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Computer science is the most misunderstood field there is. You are being paid to solve puzzles. For a person who has practiced meditation in past lives, that is the way your mind works.

  Frederick Lenz

  Science, Past, Meditation

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• Because we do not understand the brain very well we are constantly tempted to use the latest technology as a model for trying to understand it. In my childhood we were always assured that the brain was a telephone switchboard...Sherrington, the great British neuroscientist, thought the brain worked like a telegraph system. Freud often compared the brain to hydraulic and electromagnetic systems. Leibniz compared it to a mill...At present, obviously, the metaphor is the digital computer.

  John Searle

  Science, Technology, Childhood

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• I never took a computer science course in college, because then it was a thing you just learned on your own.

  Mitchel Resnick

  College, Computer, Courses

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• I recommend, for many people, the study of computer science. Our natural resource in America is the mind. The mindset in computer science is very similar to the mindset in Zen.

  Frederick Lenz

  Science, America, People

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• The logical and extralogical exercises you do in meditation are very similar to advanced systems analysis and programming.

  Frederick Lenz

  Exercise, Science, Meditation

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• In Buddhist practice a great deal of time is spent practicing mandala meditation. You learn to visualize and hold simultaneous concepts in the mind during meditation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Science, Practice

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• I have yet to see a career that is similar in benefit as computer science for doing the advanced exercises.

  Frederick Lenz

  Exercise, Science, Careers

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• I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I've ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn't want to do whatever he did.

  J. Cole

  Men, Want, Computer

  "J. Cole's Tales Out Of School". Interview with David Shapiro, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 05, 2013.

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• Why is computer science a good field for women? For one thing, thats where the jobs are, and for another, the pay is better than for many jobs, and finally, its easier to combine career and family.

  Madeleine M. Kunin

  Jobs, Careers, Pay

  "Why Girls Should Create Video Games" by Madeleine M. Kunin, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 8, 2012.

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• The prerequisite that people have a scientific or engineering degree or a medical degree limits the number of female astronauts. Right now, still, we have about 20 per cent of people who have that prerequisite who are female. So hey, girls: Embrace the very fun career of science and technology. Look at computer science. That's what I did.

  Julie Payette

  Girl, Fun, Technology

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Know what you're talking about.

  George H. W. Bush

  Knowing Jesus, Talking, Scary

  George H.W. Bush (2013). “All the Best, George Bush: My Life in Letters and Other Writings”, p.99, Simon and Schuster

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• Computer science doesn't know how to build complex systems that work reliably. This has been a well-understood problem since the very beginning of programmable computers.

  Matt Blaze

  Computer, Problem, Wells

  Source: www.politico.com

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• I considered law and math. My Dad was a lawyer. I think though I would have ended up in physics if I didn't end up in computer science.

  Bill Gates

  Dad, Math, Thinking

  "Hello Reddit – I’m Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Microsoft founder. Ask me anything". www.reddit.com. February 10, 2014.

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• I actually remember very specifically the night that I launched Facebook at Harvard. I used to go out to get pizza with a friend who I did all my computer science homework with. And I remember talking to him and saying I am so happy we have this at Harvard because now our community can be connected but one day someone is going to build this for the world.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Night, Talking, Community

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• I've been programming computers since elementary school, where they taught us, and I stuck with computer science through high school and college.

  Masi Oka

  School, College, Taught Us

  "Masi Oka: Coder, actor, hero". www.wired.com. October 25, 2006.

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