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Quotations about computers

The question of whether machines can think . . . is about as relevant as the question of whether submarines can swim.

 - Edsger Dijkstra

Tags:   computers  machines  thought  

Randy PauschSo Alice is a project that we worked on for a long, long time. It's a novel way to teach computer programming. Kids make movies and games. The head fake -- again, we're back to the head fakes. The best way to teach somebody something is to have them think they're learning something else. I've done it my whole career. And the head fake here is that they're learning to program but they just think they're making movies and video games.

 - Randy Pausch

Tags:   computers  education  programming  teaching  

Elon MuskTo make an embarrassing admission, I like video games. That's what got me into software engineering when I was a kid. I wanted to make money so I could buy a better computer to play better video games. Nothing like saving the world.

 - Elon Musk

Tags:   computers  games  wealth