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Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.
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I can't be as confident about computer science as I can about biology. Biology easily has 500 years of exciting problems to work on. It's at that level.
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Trees sprout up just about everywhere in computer science...
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Science is knowledge which we understand so well that we can teach it to a computer; and if we don't fully understand something, it is an art to deal with it.
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In this sense, we should continually be striving to transform every art into a science: in the process, we advance the art.
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The difference between art and science is that science is what people understand well enough to explain to a computer. All else is art.
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I decry the current tendency to seek patents on algorithms. There are better ways to earn a living than to prevent other people from making use of one's contributions to computer science.
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No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
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January 10, 1938
(age 86)
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