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Computer Science Quotes

An algorithm must be seen to be believed.

An algorithm must be seen to be believed.

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

There's a good part of Computer Science that's like magic. Unfortunately there's a bad part of Computer Science that's like religion.

Hal Abelson
Magic, Computer, Computer Science

Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.

Alan Perlis
Computer, Computer Science, Embarrassed
"Epigrams on Programming". ACM "SIGPLAN" Notices 17 (9), (pp. 7-13), September 1982.

Science is to computer science as hydrodynamics is to plumbing.

Stan Kelly-Bootle
Computer, Plumbing, Computer Science
Stan Kelly-Bootle (1995). “The Computer Contradictionary”, p.44, MIT Press

I never took a computer science course in college, because then it was a thing you just learned on your own.

Mitchel Resnick
College, Computer, Computer Science

I'm basically a computer science nerd.

Rebecca Moore
Nerd, Computer, Computer Science

Trees sprout up just about everywhere in computer science.

Donald Knuth
Tree, Computer, Computer Science
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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