Computer systems could not work without standards - an…

We build our computer (systems) the way we build our cities: over time, without a plan, on top of ruins

— Ellen Ullman

The only truly secure system is one that is powered off, cast in a block of concrete and sealed in a lead-lined room with…

— Gene Spafford

Today, no one would dispute that information technology has become the backbone of commerce. It underpins the operations of individual companies, ties together far-flung…

— Nicholas G. Carr

Taxpayers have spent more than $200 billion in the last decade on computer systems that are antiquated, incompatible, and not doing the job.

— William Cohen

Think of the soul as the computer system that runs the whole thing. And then the spirit is the executive center. It's the faculty…

— Dallas Willard

The best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In…

— Bill Gates

The main motivations were to try to leverage Google's expertise with large computer systems and to try to give something back to science

— Susan Wojcicki

Companies spend millions of dollars on firewalls and secure access devices, and it's money wasted because none of these measures address the weakest link…

— Kevin Mitnick

In engineering, as in other creative arts, we must learn to do analysis to support our efforts in synthesis. One cannot build a beautiful…

— Gerald Jay Sussman

When I was in prison, a Colombian drug lord, offered me $5 million in cash to manipulate a computer system so that he would…

— Kevin Mitnick

Computer system analysis is like child-rearing; you can do grievous damage, but you cannot ensure success.

— Tom DeMarco

Now scarcely a week goes by without a news story about the cops swooping down on some adolescent prowler who is as skilled at…

— Russell Baker

When I use a direct manipulation system whether for text editing, drawing pictures, or creating and playing games I do think of myself not…

— Donald A. Norman

The inside of a computer is as dumb as hell but it goes like mad!

— Richard P. Feynman

In the judgment of design engineers, the ordinary means of communicating with a computer are entirely inadequate. [...] Graphical communication in some form or…

— Maurice Wilkes