Richard P. Feynman Quotes

[Computer science] is not really about computers and it's not about computers in the same sense that physics is not really about particle accelerators, and biology is not about microscopes and Petri dishes... and geometry isn't really about using surveying instruments.

Now, the reason that we think computer science is about computers is pretty much the same reason that the Egyptians thought geometry was about surveying instruments. And that is, when some field is just getting started and you don't really understand it very well, it's very easy to confuse the essence of what you're doing with the tools that you use.

Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes, biology is about microscopes or chemistry is about beakers and test tubes. Science is not about tools. It is about how we use them, and what we find out when we do.

I started working at a point in history when digital computers were becoming mature, and before that, there were no such machines.

There's a good part of Computer Science that's like magic. Unfortunately there's a bad part of Computer Science that's like religion.

We're losing track of the vastness of the potential for computer science. We really have to revive the beautiful intellectual joy of it, as opposed to the business potential.

I've been programming computers since elementary school, where they taught us, and I stuck with computer science through high school and college.

Even though most people won't be directly involved with programming, everyone is affected by computers, so an educated person should have a good understanding of how computer hardware, software, and networks operate.

I studied Computer Science when I was in my undergrad and minored in Digital Art & Design.

I grew up as a computer scientist, and I've always been fascinated by algorithms.

For a long time it puzzled me how something so expensive, so leading edge, could be so useless. And then it occurred to me that a computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things. They are, in short, a perfect match.

Computer science is the operating system for all innovation.

When somebody has learned how to program a computer ... You're joining a group of people who can do incredible things. They can make the computer do anything they can imagine.

I despise computers in many ways. I think they’re hopelessly underevolved and overrated.

... as the world rapidly becomes a civilization of machines, the masters of machines will increasingly be the ones in control of the world.

The workers and professionals of the world will soon be divided into two distinct groups. Those who will control computers and those who will be controlled by computers. It would be best for you to be in the former group.

I like new technology.

I don't program or code or anything like that.

I am worried that algorithms are getting too prominent in the world. It started out that computer scientists were worried nobody was listening to us. Now I'm worried that too many people are listening.

I am now very interested in computer technology as it is used currently to make games. I think this technology is very powerful and could be used in new ways.

Britain helped create the Internet - Tim Berners Lee created the World Wide Web, one of a long line of British scientists who have given us an outsized role in shaping our own digital future.

Software makes the world go round.

My Vikings class was super fun, and I have loved the computer science classes. Coding, for me, is like a boyfriend that makes you really upset, and then you can't get enough of him.

I was a programmer.

The whole thought of a career with computers - given that hardly anybody even knew what they were - it wasn't even a concept.