Computer Science Quotes
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Computer Science is the only discipline in which we view adding a new wing to a building as being maintenance.
— Jim Horning
I shopped at J. Crew in high school, I studied computer science. I was a nerd-nerd, now I'm a music-nerd.
— Mayer Hawthorne
Computer science departments have always considered 'user interface' research to be sissy work.
— Nicholas Negroponte
BASIC is a language invented in 1964 to provide computer access to non-science students.
— Anonymous
I don't see why religion and science can't cooperate. What's wrong with using a computer to count our blessings?
— Robert Orben
Computer science is one of the worst things that ever happened to either computers or to science.
— Neil Gershenfeld
I moved to MIT from Stanford in 1984 to teach, and became the founding director of MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab.
— Rodney Brooks
The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.
— Edsger W. Dijkstra
Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
— Alan Perlis
As a Facebook summer intern once told me, In my school's computer science department, there are more Daves than girls.
— Sheryl Sandberg
Both women and computer science are the losers when a geeky stereotype serves as an unnecessary gatekeeper to the profession.
— Cordelia Fine
Most papers in computer science describe how their author learned what someone else already knew.
— Peter Landin
Theoretical Computer Science is just as useless as everything we mathematicians do.
— Jennifer Tour Chayes
The main motivations were to try to leverage Google's expertise with large computer systems and to try to give something back to science
— Susan Wojcicki
I never took a computer science course in college, because then it was a thing you just learned on your own.
— Mitchel Resnick
The string is a stark data structure and everywhere it is passed there is much duplication of process. It is a perfect vehicle for hiding information.
— Alan J. Perlis
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes
— Edsger W. Dijkstra
The most advanced computer science programs in the world, and over the course of the Computer Center's life, thousands of students passed
— Malcolm Gladwell
The mind is like a computer. It runs programs. Most of the software has been poorly written. It is written in the language of fear.
— Frederick Lenz
The mind is an evolved computer program.
— Eric Baum
Suppose whatever we can recognize we can find. We can if P=NP.
— Lance Fortnow
The truth is that computer science is not really about the computer. It is just a tool to help you see ideas more clearly.
— Carlos Bueno
Computer assisted proofs are getting better and better and computers will play a bigger and bigger role in the future.
— Enrico Bombieri
the mind is a neural computer
— Steven Pinker
Artificial Intelligence is creating a mind, hopefully as pure a mind as possible, for a computer.
— Frederick Lenz
In computer science, we stand on each other's feet.
— Brian Reid
Computer science has as much to do with computers as astronomy has to do with telescopes.
— Edsger Dijkstra
When people think about computer science, they imagine people with pocket protectors and thick glasses who code all night.
— Marissa Mayer
Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer; art is everything else.
— Donald Ervin Knuth
I like to think of it as this new field. Instead of computer science, it's going to be virtual science.
— Brendan Iribe
Software Engineering is that part of Computer Science which is too difficult for the Computer Scientist.
— Friedrich L. Bauer
An algorithm must be seen to be believed.
— Donald Ervin Knuth
Computer science is to biology what calculus is to physics. It's the natural mathematical technique that best maps the character of the subject.
— Harold Morowitz
Computer science is the operating system for all innovation.
— Steve Ballmer
There are three great themes in science in the twentieth century : the atom, the computer, and the gene.
— Harold E. Varmus
Never tell a computer to forget it.
— Larry Niven
Computer science really involves the same mindset, particularly artificial intelligence.
— Frederick Lenz
When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
— Alan Perlis
The most important property of a program is whether it accomplishes the intention of its user.
— C.A.R. Hoare
DNA is like a computer program but far, far more advanced than any software ever created.
— Bill Gates
Functions that create values are easier to combine in new ways than functions that directly perform side effects
— Marijn Haverbeke
I was an undergrad math major and a grad student in computer science. I'm hugely introverted, not atypical of math majors.
— Judith Faulkner
Science is to computer science as hydrodynamics is to plumbing.
— Stan Kelly-Bootle
I went to a school that's predominantly computer science and engineering. So, there's a real shortage of hot girls, let's say.
— Joe Manganiello
C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success.
— Dennis M. Ritchie
What English speakers call "computer science" Europeans have known as informatique, informatica, and Informatik
— James Gleick
One good thing about my computer: it never asks why.
— Ashleigh Brilliant
The goal of Computer Science is to build something that will last at least until we've finished building it.
— William C. Brown
I am a professor at the computer science department, but I don't know how to use a computer, not even for Email.
— Endre Szemeredi
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
I'm basically a computer science nerd.
— Rebecca Moore
Follow your dreams wherever they lead you and pay for those dreams with good jobs in software programming and computer design!
— Frederick Lenz
For those who wish to stay and work in computer science or technology, fields badly in need of their services, let's roll out the welcome mat.
— Sheldon Adelson
I have yet to see a career that is similar in benefit as computer science for doing the advanced exercises.
— Frederick Lenz
Until Systers came into existence, the notion of a global 'community of women in computer science' did not exist.
— Anita Borg
In the U.S. there are two types of hipsters: those who know how to program and those who serve coffee.
— Cesar Hidalgo
This fascination with computer models is something I understand very well. Richard Feynmann called it a disease. I fear he is right.
— Michael Crichton
A lot of the parallel processing software we're currently developing for supercomputers is tantric.
— Frederick Lenz
Macroeconomics, even with all of our computers and with all of our information. is not an exact science and is incapable of being an exact science.
— Paul Samuelson
On second thought, this might not be spurious. Computer science doctorates vs. Comic book sales
— Tyler Vigen
