“Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes”
“Computing is not about computers anymore. It is about living.”
“There's a good part of Computer Science that's like magic. Unfortunately there's a bad part of Computer Science that's like religion.”
“Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter.”
“Wizards and computers get along about as well as flamethrowers and libraries.”
“The attribution of intelligence to machines, crowds of fragments, or other nerd deities obscures more than it illuminates. When people are told that a computer is intelligent, they become prone to changing themselves in order to make the computer appear to work better, instead of demanding that the computer be changed to become more useful.”