"Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes."
― Edsger Dijkstra
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― Edsger Dijkstra
More From Edsger Dijkstra
- "The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim."
- "It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration."
- "Why has elegance found so little following? That is the reality of it. Elegance has the disadvantage, if that’s what it is, that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it."
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- "When the first computers started to come in, we tried to digitalize the seismological equipment."― Frank Press
- "Right now, computers, which are supposed to be our servant, are oppressing us."― Jef Raskin
- "Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020."― Ray Kurzweil