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Therefore I am disappointed when people judge the value of a computer scientist’s work more by its economic effects than by its intellectual effects. I envy astronomers: People expect them to study stars because stars are beautiful and interesting? Alas, people these days rarely measure a computer scientist by standards of beauty and interest; they measure us by dollars or by applications rather than by contributions to knowledge, even though contributions to knowledge are the necessary ingredient to make previously unthinkable applications possible.
