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Quotes on computer science, coding, and tech education

These computer science quotes cover the field from the classroom to the research lab, including a look at how some countries teach programming starting in second class. Other lines reflect on personal paths through the discipline, from introverted math majors to founding directors of major AI labs.

Last Updated on May 30, 2021

Nov 07, 2020

I moved to MIT from Stanford in 1984 to teach, and became the founding director of MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab.

Quotes by Rodney Brooks

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Nov 07, 2020

There are several places in Vietnam where they're teaching computer science from second grade in class, so they don't have a gender divide because everybody is expected to program.

Quotes by Megan Smith

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Nov 07, 2020

I was an undergrad math major and a grad student in computer science. I'm hugely introverted, not atypical of math majors.

Quotes by Judith Faulkner

Nov 07, 2020

Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.

Quotes by Alan Perlis

One quote highlights how early, universal coding education can close the gender divide in tech, while another wryly notes that computer science itself is embarrassed by the computer, hinting at tension between theory and practice.

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