Quotes About Computer Scientist

#1. If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#2. Many people suggest using mathematics to talk to the aliens, and Dutch computer scientist Alexander Ollongren has developed an entire language (Lincos) based on this idea. But my personal opinion is that mathematics may be a hard way to describe ideas like love or democracy.

Seth Shostak

#3. Everybody doesn't want to have to be a computer scientist to protect themselves. Most people have no desire to do that.

Tim Cook

#4. Part 5 The Voice- Make that my voice

James Patterson

#5. What's more, sports are not, of course, always designed strictly to minimize the number of games. Without remembering this, some aspects of sports scheduling would otherwise seem mysterious to a computer scientist.

Brian Christian

#6. I'm a physicist and computer scientist by training. I worked in high tech for thirty years as everything from engineer to senior vice president - for many of those years, writing SF as a hobby - until, in 2004, I began writing full time.

Edward M. Lerner

#7. The American punctuation rule sticks in the craw of every computer scientist, logician, and linguist, because any ordering of typographical delimiters that fails to reflect the logical nesting of the content makes a shambles of their work.

Steven Pinker

#8. Teaming up with the scientists, researchers and computer programmers at Intel to collaborate and co-develop new ways to communicate, create, inform and entertain is going to be amazing.

Will.i.am

#9. I heard a computer scientist the other day refer to playing with the Kinect as 'storytelling.' At first I thought that sounded a little high-minded, but after trying a few games I could see what she meant.

Susan Orlean

#10. A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.

Alan Kay

#11. The best computer scientists are ... technologists who crave beauty.

David Gelernter

#12. Computer scientists are the historians of computing.

Gordon Bell

#13. You never make any of the shots you never take. 87% of the ones you do take, you'll miss too. I make 110% of my shots.

Larry Bird

#14. Computer scientists stand on each other's feet.

Richard Hamming

#15. I first read 'Madame Bovary' in my teens or early twenties.

Lydia Davis

#16. It was Monday, July 1

Barbara Venkataraman

#17. I visited a scientist who had a helmet with magnetic fields controlled by computer sequences that could profoundly affect your mood and your perceptions.

Douglas Trumbull

#18. I thank God for not making me a computer scientist.

Daniel J. Bernstein

#19. You can wear ruffles; you can be a jock, and you can still be a great computer scientist, or a great technologist, or a great product designer.

Marissa Mayer

#20. The Tinkering School. More of a lab than a school, this summer program, created by computer scientist Gever Tulley, lets children from seven to seventeen play around with interesting stuff and build cool things.

Daniel H. Pink

#21. The women who pass away before they receive Social Security, for them this is nothing but a tax from which they or their family will never receive a benefit.

Ginny Brown-Waite

#22. I'm a computer scientist by training. I'm also the author of three books, all of which endorse the use of biotechnology to improve the human condition. In the most recent of these, 'The Infinite Resource,' I talk about the power of innovation to save the world.

Ramez Naam

#23. The computer scientist Christopher Langton observed several decades ago that innovative systems have a tendency to gravitate toward the "edge of chaos":

Steven Johnson

#24. Everything starts within your own mind. The physical choices you make, drain your power or give you power. If your power is low, then you stay in lower levels of mind and you don't see opportunities.

Frederick Lenz

#25. During the week that I arrived in the United States, I saw an airport, used a telephone, used a library, talked with a scientist, and was shown a computer for the first time in my life.

Philip Emeagwali

#26. Literature is the equivalent of the climate scientist's computer simulations: set up some new starting conditions, run the whole complicated process and see what happens.

Alison Gopnik

#27. Computer science is not as old as physics; it lags by a couple of hundred years. However, this does not mean that there is significantly less on the computer scientist's plate than on the physicist's: younger it may be, but it has had a far more intense upbringing!

Richard P. Feynman

#28. A brand-new thought: Transatlantic airmail. She tests the phrase, scratching it out on the paper, over and over, transatlantic, trans atlas, trans antic. The distance finally broken.

Colum McCann

#29. I'm a contract computer scientist by trade, but I'm the founder of something called the Tinkering School. It's a summer program which aims to help kids to learn how to build the things that they think of.

Gever Tulley

#30. Finally, leaders focus on people. In the words of Grace Murray Hopper, computer scientist and rear admiral in the US Navy, "You manage things; you lead people." Naturally,

Jocelyn Davis

#31. I don't need to waste my time with a computer just because I am a computer scientist.

Edsger Dijkstra

#32. Software Engineering is that part of Computer Science which is too difficult for the Computer Scientist.

Friedrich L. Bauer

#33. I knew, always, what I wanted to be. Even before I had my first computer, I wanted to be a computer scientist.

Gary William Flake

#34. You don't need to be a computer scientist to use a Windows Phone. I think you do to use an Android phone,

Steve Ballmer