I can’t be as confident about computer science as I can about biology. Biology easily has 500 years of exciting problems to work on. It’s at that level.

— Donald Knuth, Computer Literacy Bookshops Interview (1993)

Source: http://karthikr.wordpress.com/2006/04/06/donald-knuth-%e2%80%94-computer-literacy-bookshops-interview-1993/

Interview section on why bioinformatics is exciting.

Topics: science