Quotes by Computer Scientists

Programmers are not mathematicians, no matter how much we wish and wish for it.

Richard P. Gabriel

In algorithms, as in life, persistence usually pays off.

Steven S. Skiena

An algorithm must be seen to be believed.

Donald Ervin Knuth

Suppose whatever we can recognize we can find. We can if P=NP.

Lance Fortnow

I don't know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.

Alan Kay

I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted.

Alan Turing