"Both women and computer science are the losers when a geeky stereotype serves as an unnecessary gatekeeper to the profession."

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Now, the reason that we think computer science is about computers is pretty much the same reason that the Egyptians thought geometry was about surveying instruments. And that is, when some field is just getting started and you don't really understand it very well, it's very easy to confuse the essence of what you're doing with the tools that you use.

— Hal Abelson