“The most valuable acquisitions in a scientific or technical education are the general-purpose mental tools which remain serviceable for a lifetime. I rate natural language and mathematics as the most important of these tools, and computer science as a third.”
-- George E Forsythe, quoted in Donald E Knuth, “Selected Papers in Computer Science”, p.9
“The most valuable acquisitions in a scientific or technical education are the general-purpose mental tools which remain serviceable for a lifetime. I rate natural language and mathematics as the most important of these tools, and computer science as a third.”
-- George E Forsythe, quoted in Donald E Knuth, “Selected Papers in Computer Science”, p.9