Neither Chomsky nor Church would make my top ten list. No, I don't actually have such a list, but my feeling is that their impact has been more on what is taught than what is done. Part of my unease is that I'm uncertain to what extent 'Computer Science' is a science. I feel more comfortable comparing what my colleagues and I do with the activities of architects and engineers than with mathematicians, physicists, or biologists. There are things in software that feel more as if they have been discovered than invented, but most of what [passes] for computer science is purely man-made. --Bjarne Stroustrup, November 2000 [261]

I personally regard Chomsky as a kook and a half on toast. --Jimmy Wales, December 8, 2001 [260]

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A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it.

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Only when I began studying chemical engineering at Oregon Agricultural College did I realize that I myself might discover something new about the nature of the…