Quote #686
Computer Science is the first engineering discipline in which the complexity
of the objects created is limited solely by the skill of the creator, and
not by the strength of raw materials.
-- B. Reid
Computer Science is the first engineering discipline in which the complexity
of the objects created is limited solely by the skill of the creator, and
not by the strength of raw materials.
-- B. Reid
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