Hal Abelson Quotes

Hal Abelson is the Class of 1992 Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the MIT, and a fellow of the IEEE. He holds an A.B. degree from Princeton University and a Ph.D. degree in mathematics from MIT.

"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

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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
— "Auditing Classes at M.I.T.", New York Times Interview (p. 1)

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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

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Applicants must also have extensive knowledge of Unix, although they should have sufficiently good programming taste to not consider this an achievement

Hal Abelson
— Source: anusf.anu.edu.au - MIT job advertisement

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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
— Auditing Classes at M.I.T. New York Times Interview (p. 1)

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Anything which uses science as part of its name isn't: political science, creation science, computer science.

Hal Abelson
— Source: The Nature of Belief

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"What’s important is not just to develop the technology; it’s to develop the processes."

Hal Abelson
— Source: mitcet

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"Universities are meant to pass the torch of civilization."

Hal Abelson
— Source: MIT's maverick view of intellectual property worth considering

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"It is not that there is some magic technology. It is what are you going to do with it?"

Hal Abelson
— Source: mitcet

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