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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.

~Donald Knuth

Topics: Actual Art Build Computer Computer Science Doing Geniuses Just Like Many Mini Opposite People Reality Science Stones Things Think Wall

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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.

~Donald Knuth

Topics: Attitude Beings Change Computer Concentrate Construction Explaining Human Human Beings Imagining Instead Let Us Main Our Programs Rather Task Traditional Us Want

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Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.

~Donald Knuth

Topics: Art Computer Else Enough Everything Everything Else Explain Science Understand Well Well Enough

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I decry the current tendency to seek patents on algorithms. There are better ways to earn a living than to prevent other people from making use of one's contributions to computer science.

~Donald Knuth

Topics: Better Computer Computer Science Contributions Current Earn Living Making Other Patents People Prevent Science Seek Tendency Than Use Ways

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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.

~Donald Knuth

Topics: Advances Computer Fact Field In Fact Like Loose Really Scientists See Thousands Want Whatever Would

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I think Americans appreciate that my dad's a genuine guy. He's not gonna manicure every little word, and he's not massaging it. He's not running computer analytics to tell you what you want to hear and then do whatever the special interests tell him what they want him to do in the end.

~Donald Trump, Jr.

Topics: American Appreciate Computer Dad End Every Genuine Gonna Guy He Hear Him In The End Interests Little Manicure Running Special Special Interests Tell Then Think Want Whatever Word You I Think

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I am not one of these people who spend a ton of time in front on my computer; I see it as very utilitarian.

~Donny Deutsch

Topics: Am Computer Front People See Spend Time Ton Utilitarian Very Who I Am I See

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The only protection as a historian is to institute a process of research and writing that minimizes the possibility of error. And that I have tried to do, aided by modern technology, which enables me, having long since moved beyond longhand, to use a computer for both organizing and taking notes.

~Doris Kearns Goodwin

Topics: Beyond Both Computer Enables Error Having Historian Institute Long Longhand Me Modern Modern Technology Moved Notes Only Organizing Possibility Process Protection Research Since Taking Technology Tried Use Which Writing

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While many hackers have the knowledge, skills, and tools to attack computer systems, they generally lack the motivation to cause violence or severe economic or social harm.

~Dorothy Denning

Topics: Attack Cause Computer Economic Generally Hackers Harm Knowledge Lack Many Motivation Severe Skills Social Systems Tools Violence While

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What the computer in virtual reality enables us to do is to recalibrate ourselves so that we can start seeing those pieces of information that are invisible to us but have become important for us to understand.

~Douglas Adams

Topics: Become Computer Enables Important Information Invisible Ourselves Pieces Reality Seeing Start Those Understand Us Virtual Virtual Reality

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