Computer Science Quotes

The EDSAC was built in a climate of optimism and enthusiasm, and it was a great adventure.

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

The study of intelligence is the study of how to make machines do what minds do.

The mind is a terrible thing to waste, but a wonderful thing to build.

The Internet is like a giant library, but all the books are on the floor.

Talk is cheap. Show me the code.

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

The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.

The fundamental problem of communication is that of reproducing at one point either exactly or approximately a message selected at another point.

The original idea of the web was that it should be a collaborative space where you can communicate through sharing information.

Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.

If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It is much easier to apologize than it is to get permission.

The whole of the developments and operations of analysis are now capable of being executed by machinery.