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"The Holy Grail of computer science is to capture the messy complexity of the natural world and express it algorithmically."
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From this, he concludes that "What can be automated?" means: "What are the limits, imposed by complexity, on the application of computers?"
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Compare this quote (emphasis added):
Of possibly related interest:
Among several follow-up commentaries, see esp.:
Hartmanis, Juris
(1995),
"Response to the Essays "On Computational Complexity and the
Nature of Computer Science" ",
ACM Computing Surveys
27(1) (March): 59-61.
Shapiro, Stuart C. (1997), "What Is Computer Science?".
Guzdial, Mark (2008),
"Paving the Way for Computational Thinking",
Communications of the ACM
51(8) (August): 25-27.
Carey, Kevin (2010),
"Decoding the Value of Computer Science",
Chronicle
of Higher Education 58(12) (November 12): A88.
Two quotes from Bernard Chazelle, Prof. of CS, Princeton:
Chazelle, Bernard (2006),
"The Algorithm: Idiom of Modern Science"