Computers Quote by Alan Kay Download Open image “Computer programmers do it byte by byte” — Alan Kay ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Computers Programming
If you don't know how compilers work, then you don't know how computers work. — Steve Yegge Copy Share Image
I had a running compiler and nobody would touch it. They told me computers could only do arithmetic. — Grace Hopper Copy Share Image
Universal coding for computers is sought that uses relative addresses and a pseudocode and that assembles and translates, printing out a directory of final… — Saul Gorn Copy Share Image
“Q: What did the hungry computer eat? A: Chips, one byte at a time.” — Joe Kozlowski Copy Share Image
Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it. — Alan Perlis Copy Share Image
It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one. — Alan Perlis Copy Share Image
The computer is a very regular structure. It's very uniform. It's got a bunch of memory, and it's got a little element that computes… — Paul Allen Copy Share Image
What a lot of people don't know, because in a lot of TV and movies, they have a lot of men talking about computers… — Lisa Ling Copy Share Image
Pretty much everything on the web uses those two things: C and UNIX, — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share Image
A program is a spell cast over a computer, turning input into error messages — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds. The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at… — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984. — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
When I first prepared this particular talk... I realized that my usual approach is usually critical. That is, a lot of the things that… — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal - a sort of 'voting' situation. But once the threshold… — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual - not how to use it but why, when and for what. — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones. Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing… — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
It's hard to change information in books, but if we have everything online, then a somewhat untrustworthy group of people controlling the thing -… — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure. — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware. — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
I think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” - because it is noisy and sometimes drowns… — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet) — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
I don't understand why we're all connected wirelessly via a little machine that goes in our pocket, to everybody in the world, and you… — Jon M. Chu Copy Share Image
“Probably it goes without saying, but time machine guys don't get a lot of action. Had a one night stand with something cute a… — Charles Yu Copy Share Image
The time that one gains cannot be accumulated in a storehouse; it is contradictory to want to save up existence, which, the fact is,… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Issac:"I dislike living in a world without Augustus Waters." Computer: "I don't understand-" Issac: "Me neither. Pause — John Green Copy Share Image
“Note found in the patron suggestion box: "You have SIGNS up near the computers that say BE QUIET, but people don't be quiet. They… — Gina Sheridan Copy Share Image
“You weren't born to be a cog in the giant industrial machine. You were trained to become a cog. There's an alternative available to… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
If you stood me in a costume next to a computer graphic of the same-looking character, I think there would be a difference. And… — Warwick Davis Copy Share Image
The corporate state is an immensely powerful machine, ordered, legalistic, rational, yet utterly out of human control, wholly and perfectly indifferent to any human… — Charles A. Reich Copy Share Image
The popular mind often pictures gigantic flying machines speeding across the Atlantic carrying innumerable passengers in a way analogous to our modern steam ships.… — William Henry Pickering Copy Share Image
“Alan Turing proposed the Turing Test: a computer is intelligent if you can't tell it from a human when you talk with it. No… — CJS Hayward Copy Share Image
Computers can be taught that certain tune or certain chords changes will sound pleasant together, but I don't think it's going to reach a… — Bonobo Copy Share Image