"Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes." ― Edsger Dijkstra Topic(s): Computers More From Edsger Dijkstra "Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure." "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." "The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim." More In Computers "I got interested in computers and how they could be enslaved to the megalomaniac impulses of a teenager."― Eugene Jarvis "Computers are hierarchical. We have a desktop and hierarchical files which have to mean everything."― Ted Nelson "Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020."― Ray Kurzweil