Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.
In America, they want you to accomplish these great feats, to pull off these David Copperfield-type stunts. You want me to be great, but you don't ever want me to say I'm great?
Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.