Hal Abelson: What Is Computer Science? (SICP Lecture)

Cited in debates over whether computer science is a science, and for Abelson's line that it is neither a science nor about computers.

An excerpt from Hal Abelson's opening SICP lecture introducing computer science and contrasting declarative and imperative knowledge. He argues that computer science is not really a science and is more like magic or engineering of ideas.