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"Computer science is a funny thing for what we do. It's not a science, and it's not about computers."

(I forget the author, but I believe it was someone at MIT)

I think it was either Hal Abelson or Jerry Sussman in one of the SICP lectures. http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/

Dijkstra is often quoted (though no clue if he actually said it) with a similar expression "Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes."

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