Code Quote by Austin Grossman

Computers sort of came around through games and toys. And you know, the first computer most people had in the house may have been…

— Rodney Brooks

“The first hackers were people in software who like solving problems and believe in freedom and helping each other. They produced a lot of…

— CJS Hayward

The idea behind digital computers may be explained by saying that these machines are intended to carry out any operations which could be done…

— Alan Turing

“Computers were a kind of magery in themselves, or might as well be - to people who didn't understand them, they were every bit…

— Orson Scott Card

One of the big first computers was called SAGE, which was a missile defense, the first missile-defense computer, which was, like, one of the…

— Marc Andreessen

Early on, when software was developed by computer scientists, just people working with computers, people passed around software because that was how you got…

— Tim O'Reilly

The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.

— Alan Kay

Back in my era, hacking was all about messing with other hackers. It was a hacker war.

— Michael Demon Calce

A computer program is a message from a man to a machine. The rigidly marshaled syntax and the scrupulous definitions all exist to make…

— Fred Brooks

It used to be the program's purpose to instruct our computers; it became the computer's purpose to execute our programs.

— Edsger Dijkstra

Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.

— Joseph Campbell

Who do you suppose invented computers? Speaking in terms relevant to you, in terms of earth history, let alone other worldly history, the computer,…

— Frederick Lenz