"Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes."
— Computer science

January 1, 1970

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On the other hand in 1993 Matthew Dennis Haines attributed the quote to Dijkstra in: M.D. Haines (1993) Distributed runtime support for task and data management. Technical Report CS-93-110 Colorado State University, p. 4. The origin of this quote is not listed, so this remains unclear.