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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer. - Alan Perlis

Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer. – Alan Perlis

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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline, organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self critical. – Alan Perlis

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Education
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God. – Alan Perlis

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God
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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word frustration. – Alan Perlis

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Computers
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I liked math – that was my favorite subject – and I was very interested in astronomy and in physical science. – Sally Ride

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Anthropology was the science that gave her the platform from which she surveyed, scolded and beamed at the world. – Jane Howard

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Science can be introduced to children well or poorly. If poorly, children can be turned away from science; they can develop a lifelong antipathy; they will be in a far worse condition than if they had never been introduced to science at all. – Isaac Asimov

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There was no before the beginning of our universe, because once upon a time there was no time. – John D. Barrow

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Argue for your limitations and sure enough theyre yours – Richard Bach

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Leash: n, a means by which animals, formerly running wild, are prevented from running tame, also. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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My work is the only ground Ive ever had to stand on. To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation, but Im working on the foundation. – Marilyn Monroe

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Spend in pure converse our eternal day;
Think each in each, immediately wise;
Learn all we lacked before; hear, know, and say
What this tumultuous body now denies;
And feel, who have laid our groping hands away;
And see, no longer blinded by our eyes. – Rupert Brooke

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