17 Just like Larry Page and Sergey Brin unseated their incumbents with a better search engine, how likely is it that two Computer Science PhD students create a search engine that unseats Google? How vulnerable is Google to this possibility?

18 Why do computer science people get annoyed when someone asks, "Can you fix my computer?"

19 Why was Edsger Dijkstra so cool?

20 Why is it hard to scale a database, in layman’s terms?

21 Is getting a PhD in computer science beneficial to a software engineer?

22 How difficult is video game programming?

23 What are the best screenshots you have on your phone that only computer scientists/CS students would understand?

24 What's the best way to explain big-O notation in laymen's terms?

25 Why isn't the famous "Introduction to Algorithms" by CLRS available for free?

26 Is MIT’s computer science program really better than Stanford or Berkeley, or is it just east coast bias and hyper-fastidious analysis? I mean, cal and Stanford practically built Silicon Valley and the modern economy. What has MIT done?

27 Who is Anuj Dhawan and why is he so famous in IITD CS branch?

28 What type of people work in the IT industry?

29 What advice does Thomas Cormen have for a computer science undergrad in his freshman year?

30 Is there a PDF version of Algorithms Unlocked by Thomas Cormen?

31 Are you expected to write the perfect code on your first attempt in tech interviews?

32 Can a NIT student can get a 1 crore per annum salary in computer science?

33 Why is Introduction to Algorithms the most recommended book on algorithms?

34 Why is it preferable to implement O(n^2) over O(n) to solve the same problem?

35 How do computer science graduates feel when self taught programmers get jobs so easily?

36 If I ever choose to enroll in an average university, how can I cope with the difference in quality between my less known university and the more prestigious ones in computer science?

37 What was the highest package a Computer Science M.Tech from an IIT got this year?

38 Is Imitation Game a factually correct movie about Alan Turing?

39 Why do you use Linux?

40 If you had a 1,000 pixel by 1,000 pixel display, and every second each pixel randomly was either black or white, would the display appear grey?

41 What is the most difficult concept to grasp in computer science?

42 How do search engines work? They cannot store the whole internet. Can they?

43 What caused the millennium (Y2K) bug back in 1999/2000? What types of computers could have been affected by it?

44 Why is Moore's law dead?

45 What did Alan Kay mean by, "Lisp is the greatest single programming language ever designed"?

46 Why is Windows 32-bit referred to as x86 and not x32 while 64-bit is referred to as x64?

47 Who are some of the best programmers in the world?

48 Is Minecraft Turing-Complete?

49 Why do people go to university to study computer science if the industry is always changing?

50 Is it really that hard to get a job with a Bachelor’s degree in CS? My parents say I have to get into an Ivy League college to get a CS job because the competition is so fierce. Is this true?

51 Why aren't influential computer scientists (like Linus Torvalds) as celebrated as other scientists (like Feynman, Einstein, etc)? Their work is arguably more impactful.

52 What are some examples of recursion in the real world?

53 Who was the first woman to get a PhD in computer science?

54 What is the future of the Internet?

55 Will computers ever be able to multiply 99,999,999,999 times 999,999,999,999?

56 How does the CPU know what to do with codes, and how does it read it and execute that?

57 Harvard's CS PhD requirements state they "expect all students to have some knowledge of how to build large software or hardware systems, on the order of thousands of lines of code." What is an example of a project that would meet this criterion?

58 Why is 32 bit called x86 while 64 bit called x64?

59 How is the autocomplete for Quora so fast?

60 How do you explain to a child how quantum computers work? Please break it down in the simplest way possible.

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