People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things that build on eachother, like a wall of mini stones.
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In fact what I would like to see is thousands of computer scientists let loose to do whatever they want. That's what really advances the field.
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God is a challenge because there is no proof of his existence and therefore the search must continue.
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Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.
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Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs. Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do.
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There's ways to amuse yourself while doing things and thats how I look at efficency.
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