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Computer Scientist Inspirational Quotes (8823)

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You don't need to justify your rights as a citizen - that inverts the model of responsibility. The government must justify its intrusion into your rights. If you stop defending your rights by saying, I don't need them in this context or I can't understand this, they are no longer rights.
Edward Snowden
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At many levels, Perl is a 'diagonal' language.
Larry Wall
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The world has arrived at an age of cheap complex devices of great reliability, and something is bound to come of it.
Vannevar Bush
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It was through the Second World War that most of us suddenlyappreciated for the first time the power of man's concentrated efforts to understand and control the forces of nature.We were appalled by what we saw.
Vannevar Bush
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Give these people money, let them play, and they'll come up with something.
Vannevar Bush
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A belief may be larger than a fact. A faith that is overdefined is the very faith most likely to prove inadequate to the great moments of life.
Vannevar Bush
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I say, technically, I don't think anyone in the world knows how to do such a thing. and I feel confident it will not be done for a very long period to come. I think we can leave that out of our thinking. I wish the American public would leave that out of their thinking.
Vannevar Bush
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The summation of human experience is being expanded at a prodigious rate, and the means we use for threading through the consequent maze to the momentarily important item is the same as was used in the days of square-rigged ships.
Vannevar Bush
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The scene changes but the aspirations of men of good will persist.
Vannevar Bush
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A belief may be larger than a fact.
Vannevar Bush
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Our current prison state has the dual effect of getting rid of a superfluous population of basically unskilled workers (with a close race-class correlation), and also demonizing them... The drug war is basically for this - It has nothing to do with drugs, but it has plenty to do with criminalizing an unwanted population and scaring everybody else.
Noam Chomsky
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Getting the big things right that make all the money, that's long cycle, really executing in a way that allows you to do it, that's short cycle.
Steve Ballmer
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Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.
Hal Abelson
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The key thing you can do to reduce population growth is actually improve health.
Bill Gates
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Most papers in computer science describe how their author learned what someone else already knew.
Peter Landin
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It's easier to apologize than ask for permission.
Grace Hopper
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We will soon create intelligences greater than our own ... When this happens, human history will have reached a kind of singularity, an intellectual transition as impenetrable as the knotted space-time at the center of a black hole, and the world will pass far beyond our understanding.
Vernor Vinge
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Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended.
Vernor Vinge
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In fact, there was general agreement that minds can exist on nonbiological substrates and that algorithms are of central importance to the existence of minds.
Vernor Vinge
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Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded.
Vernor Vinge
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The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.
Vernor Vinge
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I have argued above that we cannot prevent the Singularity, that its coming is an inevitable consequence of the humans natural competitiveness and the possibilities inherent in technology.
Vernor Vinge
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But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.
Vernor Vinge
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How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?
Vernor Vinge
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