"I'm personally convinced that computer science has a lot in common with physics. Both are about how the world works at a rather fundamental level. The difference, of course, is that while in physics you're supposed to figure out how the world is made up, in computer science you create the world. Within the confines of the computer, you're the creator. You get to ultimately control everything that happens. If you're good enough, you can be God. On a small scale."
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Linus Torvalds. "Birth of an Operating System", Chapter V: "The Beauty of Programming"
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Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary is an autobiography of Linus Torvalds, the Finnish software developer who created Linux and (later) Git. The book was published in 2001. Torvalds wrote it with journalist David Diamond, who had interviewed him in 1999 for the San Jose Mercury News.
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