#computer science

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

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

— Edsger Dijkstra

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Even when I was studying mathematics, physics, and computer science, it always seemed that the problem of consciousness was about the most interesting problem out there for science to come to grips with. ↗

— David Chalmers

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