SMALL TALK

... On Computer Science

A Computer Scientist is someone who fixes things that aren't broken.
      -- Unknown

Computer Science is merely the post-Turing decline in formal systems theory.
      -- Unknown

Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
      -- E. W. Dijkstra

Computer Science is nothing more than the study of patterns of 0's and 1's.
      -- Donald Knuth

Computer scientists do it byte by byte.
      -- Unknown

Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulder, Computer Scientists stand on each other's toes.
      -- Unknown

The goal of Computer Science is to build something that will last until we've finished building it.
      -- Unknown

There's no such thing as computer science -- it's witchcraft!
      -- Unknown

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