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103 Computer scientist Quotes

In success there's a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
In success Tendency Keep on Were doing
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising. There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.” Art also has this element.

Most creativity Transition One context Where things
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.

Change Is easy Except Part
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I fear - as far as I can tell - that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.

Fear Undergraduate degrees Computer science Java vocational
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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.

Most Disastrous thing You can Ever learn
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The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn't started yet.

Real romance Out ahead Come Computer revolution
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.

Any company Large enough Research lab Too large
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.

Important technology First create Problem Solve it
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.

People who Really serious Software Own hardware
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Solving big problems is easier than solving little problems.

Solving Big problems Easier Little
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I would like to see anyone be able to achieve their dreams, and that's what this organization does.

Like Achieve Dreams Organization
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I had no dreams of such economic success. You should have fun and not be so weighed down by expectations.

Dream Success Fun Weighed down
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We wouldn't survive if people didn't trust us.

We Survive People Trust
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It's a romantic notion that you're going to have one brilliant idea and then everything is going to be great... but the execution and delivery are what's key.

Brilliant idea Great Execution Delivery
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You can make money without doing evil.
You Make Money Evil
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We do lots of stuff. The only way you are going to have success is to have lots of failures first.

We Way Success Failures
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It’s not enough not to be evil. We also actively try to be good.

Not enough Evil Actively try Good
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To me, this is about preserving history and making it available to everyone.

Preserving History Available Everyone
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Too many rules stifle innovation.

Too many Rules Innovation
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Obviously, everyone wants to be successful, but I want to be looked back on as being very innovative, very trusted and ethical and ultimately, making a big difference in the world.

Everyone Successful Innovative World
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As we go forward, I hope we’re going to continue to use technology to make really big differences in how people live and work.

Go foward Hope Technology Big difference
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When it’s too easy to get money, then you get a lot of noise mixed in with the real innovation and entrepreneurship. Tough times bring out the best parts of Silicon Valley.

Easy Innovatin Tough times Entrepreneurship
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I feel there’s an existential angst among young people. I didn’t have that. They see enormous mountains, where I only saw one little hill to climb.

Feel Existential Enormous mountains Little hill
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Any conversation I have about innovation starts with the ultimate goal.

Conversation Innovation Starts Ultimate goal
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We will make machines that can reason, think and do things better than we can

We Make Machines Think
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Ultimately you want to have the entire world’s knowledge connected directly to your mind.

Ultimately Want Knowledge Mind
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It’s clear there’s a lot of room for improvement, there’s no inherent ceiling we’re hitting up on.

Clear Lot Improvement
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If what we are doing is not seen by some people as science fiction, it’s probably not transformative enough.

What People Fiction Transformative
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People try new things all the time. By now, the people who succeed have to be very sophisticated.

People Try Succeed Sophisticated
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It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.

Easier Ask Forgiveness Permission
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You don't manage people, you manage things. You lead people.

You Manage People Lead
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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Accurate Worth Expert Opinions
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If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it.

Good Idea Ahead Do it
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Leadership is a two-way street, loyalty up and loyalty down. Respect for one's superiors; care for one's crew.

Leadership Loyalty Respect Superiors
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I've always been more interested in the future than in the past.

Always Interested Future Past
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The most damaging phrase in the language is: 'It's always been done that way

Damaging Phrase Language Way
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No computer is ever going to ask a new, reasonable question. It takes trained people to do that.

Computer Ask Question People
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If you do something once, people will call it an accident. If you do it twice, they call it a coincidence. But do it a third time and you've just proven a natural law

People Accident Coincidence Law
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I will not take what you need to give me. I will take what you want to give me.

Take Need Give Want
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Truth is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations.

Truth Complicated Allow Approximations
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All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control.

Stable Processes Predict Control
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Life is a process which may be abstracted from other media.

Life Process Abstracted Media
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Problems are often stated in vague terms... because it is quite uncertain what the problems really are.

Problems Vague terms Problems
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If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.

People Believe Mathematics Life
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There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about

Sense Pricise Know Talking about
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Computers are like humans - they do everything except think
Computers Human Everything Think
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Technological possibilities are irresistible to man. If man can go to the moon, he will. If he can control the climate, he will.

Technological Possibilities Man Control
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Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.

Young Mathematics Understand
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It is just as foolish to complain that people are selfish and treacherous as it is to complain that the magnetic field does not increase unless the electric field has a curl. Both are laws of nature.

Foolish People Selfish Nature
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If one has really technically penetrated a subject, things that previously seemed in complete contrast, might be purely mathematical transformations of each other.

Penetrated Subject Contrast Mathematical
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