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by criddell 2310 days ago
I'm reading Code right now and it's fantastic. I'm a bit more than 1/2 the way through and so far it's only been about how computers work and not really about computer science.

I heard an expression this weekend that I think is apt - a computer is to computer science as a telescope is to astronomy.
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berkeleyjunk 2310 days ago
Dijkstra is supposed to have said something like this though the origin is disputed.

"Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes."

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carapace 2310 days ago
"Calling it 'computer science' is like calling surgery 'knife science'."

(Also, "CS could be called the post-Turing decline in the study of formal systems." But I don't know for sure if that was Dijkstra. It's one of my favorite jokes.)

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