Quotes About Computer

I don't know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.

It is cheaper to pay mathematicians and computer scientists to design algorithms that will eliminate webspamming, rather than to pay lawyers to do lawsuits.

But biology and computer science - life and computation - are related. I am confident that at their interface great discoveries await those who seek them.

I try to learn certain areas of computer science exhaustively; then I try to digest that knowledge into a form that is accessible to people who don't have time for such study.

DNA is like a computer program but far, far more advanced than any software ever created.

The mind is like a computer. It runs programs. Most of the software has been poorly written. It is written in the language of fear.

Until Systers came into existence, the notion of a global community of women in computer science did not exist.

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.

The main motivations were to try to leverage Google's expertise with large computer systems and to try to give something back to science

Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.

Science is knowledge which we understand so well that we can teach it to a computer; and if we don't fully understand something, it is an art to deal with it.

The computer was, to the best of my feelings about the subject, not thinking like a mathematician, and it was much more successful, because it was thinking not like a mathematician.

This fascination with computer models is something I understand very well. Richard Feynmann called it a disease. I fear he is right.

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

I'm basically a computer science nerd.

I remember that mathematicians were telling me in the 1960s that they would recognize computer science as a mature discipline when it had 1,000 deep algorithms. I think we've probably reached 500.

The mind is an evolved computer program.

Thought, then, is the execution of this computer code.

Mathematics is much less formally complete and precise than computer programs.

To err is human; to really screw up, you need a computer

Nite-Owl: Look, I just meant we took enough unnecessary risks retrieving your outfit this morning... Rorschach: Unnecessary? Cowering down here in sludge and pollution, conjuring names on screens, learning nothing: that is unnecessary. Give me smallest finger on man's hand. I'll produce information. Computer unnecessary. This face, all that's necessary... all I need.

I decry the current tendency to seek patents on algorithms. There are better ways to earn a living than to prevent other people from making use of one's contributions to computer science.

I look at prom dresses on my computer, and I laugh out loud every time I think about Daddy calling Peter my "hot boyfriend.

The price investors paid for IBM was just too high. Even though the computer giant trumped Standard Oil on growth, Standard Oil trumped IBM on valuation, and valuation determines investor returns.