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• The company I invested in is probably a leader in that area. They're a company called Second Spectrum, which happens to be based in LA but was started by two USC computer-science professors. It's filled with guys who love sports, who played sports, but really look like programmers.

  Steve Ballmer

  Sports, Two, Guy

  "Steve Ballmer talks about the current state of Microsoft, his Twitter investment, and how sports tech can help the Clippers". Interview with Matt Rosoff, www.businessinsider.com. February 6, 2016.

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• My undergraduate work was in computer science and economics. It just happened to be at that time when 34 percent of computer-science majors were women. We didn't realize it was at the peak at the time.

  Melinda Gates

  Computer, Realizing, Economics

  Interview with Jessica Grose, www.lennyletter.com. April 1, 2016.

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• I've been programming computers since elementary school, where they taught us, and I stuck with computer science through high school and college.

  Masi Oka

  School, College, Taught Us

  "Masi Oka: Coder, actor, hero". www.wired.com. October 25, 2006.

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• I considered law and math. My Dad was a lawyer. I think though I would have ended up in physics if I didn't end up in computer science.

  Bill Gates

  Dad, Math, Thinking

  "Hello Reddit – I’m Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Microsoft founder. Ask me anything". www.reddit.com. February 10, 2014.

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• Computer science doesn't know how to build complex systems that work reliably. This has been a well-understood problem since the very beginning of programmable computers.

  Matt Blaze

  Computer, Problem, Wells

  Source: www.politico.com

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• I had the opportunity, as a child, to grow up in a community center where I was exposed to theater, music, art, and computer science; things that I would have never had the opportunity to even meet had it not been for those people taking time out of their schedules, helping us as children to travel all over the world while sitting in a gymnasium. That's what I did before I was a musician, before I was a recording artist, I was a teacher and a community leader.

  Erykah Badu

  Teacher, Art, Children

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• You know that Estonia, based largely on how successful Skype was, built by Estonian developers, that was a tenth of the entire country's GDP when eBay bought it. That was like a decade ago, it was f****** Estonia, they were behind the Iron Curtain two decades earlier. They're now pushing for K-12 education in computer science in public schools. They've gotten the message. They know how much value that can bring.

  Alexis Ohanian

  Country, School, Successful

  Source: thetartan.org

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• It's now up to the states to figure out how they implement that definition of a well-rounded education, in other words, where they spend federal funds. The new law, the Every Student Succeeds Act, has suggestions like computer science, health, foreign language and geography. So there's no guarantee the arts will now flourish. Arts advocates are ready to help states and school districts with their plans.

  Elizabeth Blair Lee

  Art, School, Law

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Know what you're talking about.

  George H. W. Bush

  Knowing Jesus, Talking, Scary

  George H.W. Bush (2013). “All the Best, George Bush: My Life in Letters and Other Writings”, p.99, Simon and Schuster

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• I actually remember very specifically the night that I launched Facebook at Harvard. I used to go out to get pizza with a friend who I did all my computer science homework with. And I remember talking to him and saying I am so happy we have this at Harvard because now our community can be connected but one day someone is going to build this for the world.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Night, Talking, Community

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I've ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn't want to do whatever he did.

  J. Cole

  Men, Want, Computer

  "J. Cole's Tales Out Of School". Interview with David Shapiro, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 05, 2013.

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• The prerequisite that people have a scientific or engineering degree or a medical degree limits the number of female astronauts. Right now, still, we have about 20 per cent of people who have that prerequisite who are female. So hey, girls: Embrace the very fun career of science and technology. Look at computer science. That's what I did.

  Julie Payette

  Girl, Fun, Technology

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Why is computer science a good field for women? For one thing, thats where the jobs are, and for another, the pay is better than for many jobs, and finally, its easier to combine career and family.

  Madeleine M. Kunin

  Jobs, Careers, Pay

  "Why Girls Should Create Video Games" by Madeleine M. Kunin, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 8, 2012.

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• Drs. Margolis and Fisher have done a great service to education, computer science, and the culture at large. Unlocking the Clubhouse should be required reading for anyone and everyone who is concerned about the decreasing rate of women studying computer science.

  Anita Borg

  Reading, Drs, Culture

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• I recommend computer science to people who practice meditation. The mental structures that are used in computer science are very similar exercises done in Buddhist monasteries.

  Frederick Lenz

  Success, Buddhist, Buddhism

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• The term "informatics" was first defined by Saul Gorn of University of Pennsylvania in 1983 (Gorn, 1983) as computer science plus information science used in conjunction with the name of a discipline such as business administration or biology. It denotes an application of computer science and information science to the management and processing of data, information and knowledge in the named discipline.

  Saul Gorn

  Data, Names, Discipline

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• 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

  School, Nerd, Computer

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• The issues involved are sufficiently important that courses are now moving out of the philosophy departments and into mainstream computer science. And they affect everyone. Many of the students attracted to these courses are not technology majors, and many of the topics we discuss relate to ethical challenges that transcend the computer world.

  D. Michael Quinn

  Philosophy, Moving, Technology

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• I can't be as confident about computer science as I can about biology. Biology easily has 500 years of exciting problems to work on. It's at that level.

  Donald Knuth

  Years, Levels, Computer

  Computer Literacy Bookshops Interview, 1993.

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• [Though computer science is a fairly new discipline, it is predominantly based on the Cartesian world view. As Edsgar W. Dijkstra has pointed out] A scientific discipline emerges with the - usually rather slow! - discovery of which aspects can be meaningfully 'studied' in isolation for the sake of their own consistency.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Discovery, Views, Discipline

  "Directions and Implications of Advanced Computing, 1987, Volume 1". Book edited by Douglas Schuler and Jonathan Jacky, 1989.

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• Complexity kills. It sucks the life out of developers, it makes products difficult to plan, build and test, it introduces security challenges, and it causes end-user and administrator frustration.

  Ray Ozzie

  Frustration, Technology, Challenges

  "Burden of the years weighs on Windows" by Steve Lohr and John Markoff, www.nytimes.com. March 26, 2006.

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• One of the problems we've had is that the ICT curriculum in the past has been written for a subject that is changing all the time. I think that what we should have is computer science in the future - and how it fits in to the curriculum is something we need to be talking to scientists, to experts in coding and to young people about.

  Michael Gove

  Past, Thinking, Talking

  "Michael Gove admits schools should teach computer science". Michael Gove's speech to a group of young reporters at the national conference at New Schools Network in London, www.theguardian.com. December 6, 2011.

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• My hope is that in the future, women stop referring to themselves as 'the only woman' in their physics lab or 'only one of two' in their computer science jobs.

  Kirsten Gillibrand

  Jobs, Two, Labs

  "Increasing STEM Education for Our Nation’s Women" by Kirsten Gillibrand, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 21, 2014.

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• When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Beauty, Creativity, Thinking

  "The Universal Book of Mathematics". Book by David Darling, p. 34, November 8, 2004.

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• Perhaps writers should never be allowed to get together in a workplace context. It's not like studying computer science, after all. The emotions are at large, and are shared and are questioned. There is a vulnerability.

  Graham Joyce

  Together, Emotion, Study

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