#computer science

We're losing track of the vastness of the potential for computer science. We really have to revive the beautiful intellectual joy of it, as opposed to the business potential. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

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We're not a vocational school. If someone wants to get a high-paying job, I would hope that there are easier ways to do it than working through a formal computer science curriculum. ↗

— Philip Greenspun

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My background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups - development, testing, marketing, user education. ↗

— Melinda Gates

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I've always felt that the human-centered approach to computer science leads to more interesting, more exotic, more wild, and more heroic adventures than the machine-supremacy approach, where information is the highest goal. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

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When people think about computer science, they imagine people with pocket protectors and thick glasses who code all night. ↗

— Marissa Mayer

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This is a global fight to get the right people in the right place and we're talking about people with PhDs in engineering, computer science, mathematics. ↗

— Jerry Moran

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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer. ↗

— Alan Perlis

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If we suppose that many natural phenomena are in effect computations, the study of computer science can tell us about the kinds of natural phenomena that can occur. ↗

— Rudy Rucker

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The rise of Google, the rise of Facebook, the rise of Apple, I think are proof that there is a place for computer science as something that solves problems that people face every day. ↗

— Eric Schmidt

#computer #computer science #day #every #every day

Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

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