Computer Science Quotes

• Computer science is the operating system for all innovation.

  Steve Ballmer

  Innovation, Computer, Operating Systems

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• Trees sprout up just about everywhere in computer science.

  Donald Knuth

  Tree, Computer, Sprouts

  Donald E. Knuth (2013). “Art of Computer Programming, Volume 4, Fascicle 4,The: Generating All Trees--History of Combinatorial Generation”, p.2, Addison-Wesley Professional

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• Code never lies, comments sometimes do.

  Ron Jeffries

  Lying, Sometimes, Programming

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• Imagination is more important than knowledge.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Positive, Leadership

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.32, St. Martin's Press

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• Coding is today's language of creativity. All our children deserve a chance to become creators instead consumers of computer science.

  Maria Klawe

  Children, Creativity, Today

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• Experience comes from bad judgment.

  Mark Twain

  Learning Something New, Hiking, Climbing

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• The best way to predict the future is to create it.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• It's hardware that makes a machine fast. It's software that makes a fast machine slow.

  Craig Reucassel

  Machines, Computer, Software

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• Computer Science is a science of abstraction -creating the right model for a problem and devising the appropriate mechanizable techniques to solve it.

  Alfred Aho

  Learning, Creating, Technique

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

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Science, Technology, Telescopes

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• I think everyone should get a little exposure to computer science because it really forces you to think in a slightly different way, and it's a skill that you can apply in life in general, whether you end up in computer science or not.

  Tony Hsieh

  Thinking, Skills, Littles

  FaceBook post by Tony Hsieh from Mar 25, 2014

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• UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.

  Dennis Ritchie

  Simple, Simplicity, Genius

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• I'm not a great programmer; I'm just a good programmer with great habits.

  Kent Beck

  Greatness, Professionalism, Habit

  Jay Fields, Shane Harvie, Martin Fowler, Kent Beck (2009). “Refactoring: Ruby Edition”, p.74, Pearson Education

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• The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

  Alan Kay

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Walter Isaacson (2011). “Steve Jobs”, p.95, Simon and Schuster

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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

  Learning, Views, Wings

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• The unavoidable price of reliability is simplicity.

  Tony Hoare

  Simplicity, Reliability, Programming

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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

  Thinking, Apples, People

  "Google's Eric Schmidt predicts the future of computing - and he plans to be involved". Interview with Kamal Ahmed, www.telegraph.co.uk. February 5, 2011.

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• An algorithm must be seen to be believed.

  Donald Knuth

  Engineering, Algorithms

  Donald Ervin Knuth (1997). “The Art of Computer Programming: Fundamental algorithms”, Addison-Wesley Professional

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• Science is supposedly the method by which we stand on the shoulders of those who came before us. In computer science, we all are standing on each others' feet.

  Gerald J. Popek

  Technology, Feet, Computer

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• Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

  Pablo Picasso

  Funny, Witty, Technology

  Quoted inWilliam Fifield, In Search of Genius (1982)

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• To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.

  Paul R. Ehrlich

  Inspirational, Funny, Witty

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• There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult.

  Tony Hoare

  Witty, Humorous, Simple

  "The Emperor's Old Clothes". Communications of the ACM 24 (2), (pp. 75-83), February 1981.

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• People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things that build on each other, like a wall of mini stones.

  Donald Knuth

  Art, Wall, Reality

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• In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.

  Yogi Berra

  Leadership, Funny Inspirational, Reality

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The first law of computer science: Every problem is solved by yet another indirection.

  Bjarne Stroustrup

  Law, Firsts, Computer

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