Now, something really à côté de la plaque...
Jack Henahan terminates his useful advice addressed to A. Coppin:
Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
-- Edsger Dijkstra
This citation makes me think, and since this became rare, I share it.
* It is
Wherever its origin, it is featured in SICP which was out in 1984:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQLUPjefuWA It's a sound analogy.
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On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 11:19 AM, Jerzy Karczmarczuk
jerzy.karczmarc...@unicaen.fr wrote:
It is unsourced, repeated without discernment, and Dijkstra cannot confirm
(or deny) it any more. Somehow I cannot believe he said that...
Dijkstra began to study physics, and a physicist would be
Better?
Jack Henahan
jhena...@uvm.edu
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Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes….
-- Michael R. Fellows and Ian Parberry
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On Aug 29, 2011, at 11:47 AM, Gwern Branwen wrote:
Michael R.
In fairness, I already knew it wasn't an actual Dijkstra quote. It's just one
that gets thrown around with his name on it. The origins were misty enough that
I just decided to pick the one that pop culture chose.
Jack Henahan
jhena...@uvm.edu
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Computer science is no more about computers than
I'm afraid you're going to have a lot of OCD's completely miss the point of
your email and annoy you with comments about the quote which you'll then
have to refute.
I'd actually stick with the old comment, remove it completely, include a
short summary with a link to the paper or attribute it to
On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 12:18 PM, aditya siram aditya.si...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm afraid you're going to have a lot of OCD's completely miss the point of
your email and annoy you with comments about the quote which you'll then
have to refute.
I dunno, I found the quote interesting. I had typed
On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Gwern Branwen gwe...@gmail.com wrote:
As well, in no Google hit did I find any specific citation to
Dijkstra. Hence, I conclude that because it is insightful and sounds
like Dijkstra (eg. his submarine quote), it has become apocryphally
associated with him but
