113 Quotes About Computer-science

The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform.

Evolution optimizes strongly for energy efficiency because of limited food supply, not for ease of construction or understanding by human engineers.

And they came to be included in a culture and community that placed the computer science engineer at the highest level of social status.

I wish to add my mite towards expounding & interpreting the Almighty, & his laws & works, for the most effective use of mankind; and certainly, I should feel it no small glory if I were enabled to be one of his most noted prophets (using this word in my own peculiar sense) in this world.

If the brain had a native language we would be able to communicate with all humans without translation. Or even all other creatures on earth.

Simply In Depth......

Perhaps the most important principle for the good algorithm designer is to refuse to be content.

There are 2 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-1 errors.

The ocean is a Turing machine, the sand is its tape; the water reads the marks in the sand and sometimes erases them and sometimes carves new ones with tiny currents that are themselves a response to the marks.