“My hope is that in the future, women stop referring to themselves as 'the only woman' in their physics lab or 'only one of two' in their computer science jobs.” TwoJobsComputerPhysicsComputer ScienceLabsReferring Author:Kirsten Gillibrand
“I was lucky to get into computers when it was a very young and idealistic industry. There weren't many degrees offered in computer science, so people in computers were brilliant people from mathematics, physics, music, zoology, whatever. They loved it, and no one was really in it for the money.” PeopleYoungIndustryLuckyDegreesComputerMathematicsBrilliantPhysicsComputer ScienceIdealisticZoology Author:Steve Jobs
“Atlantis was a highly evolved civilization where the sciences and arts were far more advanced than one might guess. Atlantis was technologically advanced in genetic engineering, computer science, inter-dimensional physics, and artistically developed with electronic music and crystal art forms.” ArtMightFormCivilizationComputerAncientPhysicsEngineeringCrystalsComputer ScienceArt And ScienceElectronic MusicAncient EgyptAtlantisGenetic Engineering Author:Frederick Lenz
“Astronomy is so easy to love. ... Fairly or not, physics is associated with nuclear bombs and nuclear waste, chemistry with pesticides, biology with Frankenfood and designer-gene superbabies. But astronomers are like responsible ecotourists, squinting at the scenery through high-quality optical devices, taking nothing but images that may be computer-enhanced for public distribution, leaving nothing but a few Land Rover footprints on faraway Martian soil, and OK, OK, maybe the Land Rover, too.” MayScienceEasyQualityLandWasteComputerResponsibleLeavingNuclearPhysicsAstronomyDesignerSoilBombsBiologyDevicesChemistryGenesDistributionFootprintSceneryHigh QualityAstronomersNuclear BombMartiansPesticidesNuclear WasteSquinting Author:Natalie Angier
“[Computer science] is not really about computers and it's not about computers in the same sense that physics is not really about particle accelerators, and biology is not about microscopes and Petri dishes... and geometry isn't really about using surveying instruments.” ComputerInstrumentsPhysicsBiologyDishesParticlesGeometryComputer ScienceMicroscopes Author:Hal Abelson
“In physics, one of the most exciting areas is in nanotech. With computers exhausting the power of silicon, Silicon Valley could become a Rust Belt, unless we can find replacements, such as quantum computers and molecular computers. To be a leader in any field, one has to have a great imagination. Sure, we have to know the basics and fundamentals. But beyond that, we have to let our imagination soar.” KnowsImaginationLeaderFieldsComputerAreasExcitingFundamentalsPhysicsValleysQuantumSoarBeltsExhaustingBasicsRustSiliconReplacementsSilicon ValleyGreat Imagination Author:Michio Kaku
“Computer science needs to be part of the core curriculum - like algebra, biology, physics, or chemistry. We need all schools to teach it, not just 10%.” NeedsSchoolTeachComputerPhysicsCoreBiologyChemistryComputer ScienceCurriculumAlgebra Author:Brad Feld
“Trying to get a read on Apple Computer is a lot like learning about quantum physics; you can never know Apple's position on a technology, and its direction, simultaneously.” KnowsTryingTechnologyPositionComputerPhysicsApplesQuantumQuantum Physics Author:Mark Pesce
“Computer science is not as old as physics; it lags by a couple of hundred years. However, this does not mean that there is significantly less on the computer scientist's plate than on the physicist's: younger it may be, but it has had a far more intense upbringing!” YearsMayMeanDoeCoupleComputerHundredScientistPhysicsIntensePlatesPhysicistUpbringingComputer ScienceLag Author:Richard P. Feynman
“I considered law and math. My Dad was a lawyer. I think though I would have ended up in physics if I didn't end up in computer science.” IfsThinkingEndsLawDadComputerMy DadMathLawyerPhysicsComputer Science Author:Bill Gates
“I began to realize something - to understand the future you have to understand physics. Physics of the last century gave us television, radio, microwaves, gave us the Internet, lasers, transistors, computers - all of that from physics.” LastsRealizingCenturyTelevisionInternetComputerRadioPhysicsLasersMicrowavesTransistors Author:Michio Kaku
“There was a period there where I was like, "No, no, no, this is crazy. I don't want to take any more drawing classes and talk about what looks best. I want to study math and psychology and physics and all these nerdy things with computers." That was fun and great, but that didn't work out. At the end of high school, I was like, "Uhh, what's easier? Drawing is easier, I'll do that".” WantLooksEndsSchoolFunClassStudyPsychologyCrazyPeriodsEasierComputerHigh SchoolWork OutMathDrawingPhysicsNerdyHigh School Ending Author:James Pearse Connelly
“If you look at the last 150 years, about every 30 years or so, a new scientific discipline emerges that starts spinning out technologies and capturing people's imaginations. Go back to 1900: That industry was chemistry. People had chemistry sets. In the 1930s, it was the rise of physics and physicists. They build on each other. Chemists laid the experimental understanding for the physicists to build their theories. It was three physicists who invented the transistor in 1947. That started the information revolution. Today, kids get computers.” PeopleIfsYearsLooksKidsTodayLastsThreeUnderstandingImaginationTechnologyInformationTheoryRevolutionIndustryDisciplineComputerPhysicsChemistryPhysicistSpinning1930sChemistTransistors Author:Paul Saffo
“Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.” WellsArtEnoughScienceUnderstandingComputerArt IsMathematicsMathPhysicsMathematicalProgrammingMathematicianExplainingComputer ScienceMath And ScienceMathematics And ScienceMath EducationExplaining Things Author:Donald Knuth
“Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.” ScienceCreativityImpossibleAirComputerMachinesInnovationPhysicsSillyFlyingDumbAviationProvenPredictionsFollow Your DreamsStupid PeopleSkepticPropheticPredictingForecastsFamous Last WordsShort SightedScience PhysicsPredicting The FutureCrazy IdeasProven WrongFlying MachinesFuture Science Author:Lord Kelvin