Bjarne Stroustrup vs. Isaac Asimov
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Bjarne Stroustrup
1950 – present
Bjarne Stroustrup is a Danish computer scientist, known for the development of the C++ programming language. He led the Large-scale Programming Research department at Bell Labs, served as a professor of computer science at Texas A&M University, and spent over a decade at Morgan Stanley while also being a visiting professor at Columbia University. Since 2022 he has been a full professor at Columbia.
"One of the things I really like about programming languages is that it's the perfect excuse to stick your nose into any field. So if you're interested in high e…"
Isaac Asimov
1920 – 1992
Isaac Asimov was an American author and biochemist, best known for his prolific science fiction works such as the Foundation series and for popular science books.
"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."
Connections
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