Computing Quotes

Cloud computing is a fact of life.

— Thomas Hardiman

Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living.

— Nicholas Negroponte

The universe is computing its own destiny.

— James Gleick

Cloud is about how you do computing, not where you do computing

— Paul Maritz

The computing field is always in need of new cliches.

— Alan Perlis

“Computing is not about computers anymore. It is about living.”

— Nicholas Negroponte

Cultural perspective on gender diversity in computing,

— Lenore Blum

“A mind is a simulation that simulates itself.”

— Erol Ozan

I think it's fair to say that the age of traditional computing is dead.

— Lisa Su

There's nothing in computing that can't be broken by another level of indirection.

— Rob Pike

Cloud computing is a challenge to security, but one that can be overcome.

— Whitfield Diffie

We think computing ought to be like a telephone or a water tap or a light switch.

— Scott McNealy

In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word "frustration".

— Alan Perlis

I have to admit it: I'm not a huge fan of the cloud computing concept.

— Jamais Cascio

One reason you should not use web applications to do your computing is that you lose control.

— Richard Stallman

Cloud computing is a great euphemism for centralization of computer services under one server.

— Evgeny Morozov

Computing shows up in many different ways. You have computing that you wear, computing that you carry. What you think of as…

— Michael Dell

The Internet is a computing platform built on top of core technology. Applied technology is what gets built on top of that:…

— Fred Wilson

Long term, the PC and workstation will wither because computing access will be everywhere: in the walls, on wrists, and in 'scrap…

— Mark Weiser

Computing lets people express their creativity and unlock solutions, and code is computing's universal language. All young people, including girls, deserve to…

— Gabe Newell

Many jobs at Google require math, computing, and coding skills, so if your good grades truly reflect skills in those areas that…

— Thomas Friedman

Alan Turing gave us a mathematical model of digital computing that has completely withstood the test of time. He gave us a…

— George Dyson

In some far-off distant time, when the twentieth century history of primitive computing is just a murky memory, someone is likely to…

— Charles Petzold

I really never wanted to do source control management at all and felt that it was just about the least interesting thing…

— Linus Torvalds

It is easy to predict that some of the discoveries of research directed towards Grand Challenges - but only the most unexpected…

— Tony Hoare

We couldn't build quantum computers unless the universe were quantum and computing. We can build such machines because the universe is storing…

— Seth Lloyd

“Computer engineers of today are likely to find that if they have a two-week holiday they may miss a crucial new development…

— James Essinger

The power efficiency of computing has improved by a factor of a billion from the ENIAC computer of the 1950s to today's…

— R. Stanley Williams

Much of my work has come from being lazy. I didn't like writing programs, and so, when I was working on the…

— John Backus

It has long been my personal view that the separation of practical and theoretical work is artificial and injurious. Much of the…

— Christopher Strachey

In the 'Disruptive Broadcasting' space, TV on IP networks is now just another application in a broadband world. We have already seen…

— Jeff Pulver

What happens to people like myself, who have been involved with computing for a long time, is that you begin to see…

— Ellen Ullman

We believe we're moving out of the Ice Age, the Iron Age, the Industrial Age, the Information Age, to the participation age.…

— Scott McNealy

Right up till the 1980s, SF envisioned giant mainframe computers that ran everything remotely, that ingested huge amounts of information and regurgitated…

— Walter Jon Williams

I think that it's extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing. When it started out, it was an…

— Alan Perlis

Only the heart knows the correct answer. Most people think the heart is mushy and sentimental. But it's not. The heart is…

— Deepak Chopra

“The Beetle’s body, whether it be a ’49 split or a ’73 Jeans Bug, or an ‘03 Mexican, was originally conceived in…

— Christina Engela

There is no reason products and services could not be swapped directly by consumers and producers through a system of direct exchange…

— Mervyn King

The object of geometry in all its measuring and computing, is to ascertain with exactness the plan of the great Geometer, to…

— Benjamin Peirce

Not fair? Oh, I'm sorry I get this lovely laptop computing device when all you get is the ability to walk, control…

— Jordan Sonnenblick