Adrian Kosmaczewski on Nostr: "Perhaps the central problem we face in all of computer science is how we are to get ...
"Perhaps the central problem we face in all of computer science is how we are to get to the situation where we build on top of the work of others rather than redoing so much of it in a trivially different way. Science is supposed to be cumulative, not almost endless duplication of the same kind of things."
From "One Man's View of Computer Science", 1968 ACM Turing Award acceptance lecture of Richard Hamming
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