Hal Abelson Quotes
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If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
Hal Abelson— Source: Public Knowledge - Hal Abelson; also quoted in Vortex dynamics in thin films of amorphous Mo77Ge23, 1998, p. 6Abelson attributes this thought to his Princeton roommate Jeff Goll
In the Middle Ages people built cathedrals, where the whole town would get together and make a thing that's greater than any individual person could do and the society would kind of revel in that. We don't do that as much anymore, but in a sense this is kind of like building a cathedral.
Hal Abelson— Source: Auditing Classes at M.I.T. - New York Times Interview, pg. 1
Anything which uses science as part of its name isn't: political science, creation science, computer science.
Hal Abelson— Source: The Nature of Belief
"What’s important is not just to develop the technology; it’s to develop the processes."
Hal Abelson— Source: mitcet
"Universities are meant to pass the torch of civilization."
Hal Abelson— Source: MIT's maverick view of intellectual property worth considering
"Giving it away helps defuse complex intellectual property issues of ownership and control that can distract the universities from their missions to disseminate knowledge." - commmenting on MIT's Open Courseware program
Hal Abelson— Source: MIT's maverick view of intellectual property worth considering
