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by berkeleyjunk 2320 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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"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.)