Ability Quote by Alan Turing

“Well, Mr. Frankel, who started this program, began to suffer from the computer disease that anybody who works with computers now knows about. It's…

— Richard P. Feynman

We taught ourselves to simulate how microprocessors work using DEC computers so we could develop software even before our machine was built.

— Paul Allen

I had a running compiler and nobody would touch it. They told me computers could only do arithmetic.

— Grace Hopper

Though under-instruction is a bad thing, it is not impossible that over-instruction may be worse.

— Thomas Huxley

Before a kid learns how to use a computer that can solve mathematical problems, he or she should know how to do arithmetic without…

— Andy Rooney

More than sixty years ago, mathematical logicians, by defining precisely the concept of an algorithm, gave content to the ancient human idea of an…

— David Berlinski

There is a real danger that computers will develop intelligence and take over.

— Stephen Hawking

If you don't know how compilers work, then you don't know how computers work.

— Steve Yegge

Every computer divides itself into its hardware and its software, the machine host to its algorithm, the human being to his mind. It is…

— David Berlinski

People imagine that programming is logical, a process like fixing a clock. Nothing could be further from the truth.

— Ellen Ullman

“The American Works Progress (later Projects) Administration, founded in 1935 to provide jobs for “employable workers” during the Great Depression, established the Mathematical Tables…

— Jack Lynch

The early personal computers were not very powerful so the idea of feeding their program into a small amount of memory requires immense skill.

— Bill Gates