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“Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes”

- Edsger Dijkstra

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skeaker3y ago· 1 in thread

This rant from a little while ago soured me on this quote: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34940148

FWIW, that's actually a good rant.

And then some guy called Kepler invented a new kind of telescope.

(And we all atarted writing more quantum algorithms.)

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