Computers Quote by Brian Christian

“As so often happens in computer science, we’re willing to sacrifice efficiency for generality.”

— Pedro Domingos

“It’s fairly intuitive that never exploring is no way to live. But it’s also worth mentioning that never exploiting can be every bit as…

— Brian Christian

In fact what I would like to see is thousands of computer scientists let loose to do whatever they want. That's what really advances…

— Donald Knuth

We're losing track of the vastness of the potential for computer science. We really have to revive the beautiful intellectual joy of it, as…

— Jaron Lanier

Perhaps the central problem we face in all of computer science is how we are to get to the situation where we build on…

— Richard Hamming

It is instructive, for instance, to trace the computer industry's decline in vision, idealism, creativity, romance and sheer fun as it becomes more and…

— Robert Shea

“reducing human capabilities into specialized tasks that computers can be trained to conquer one by one.”

— Peter Thiel

The functional uses of machines and innovative computer programs is not to isolate us but, rather, to promote coexistence. If used properly, it brings…

— Saroo Brierley

“our longstanding idea of a computer is obsolete.”

— Nicholas Carr

“In this business, I find more value in working with hackers who abstract new realities from cast aside code and concepts than academics who…

— James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

My own theory is that we are in the middle of a dramatic and broad technological and economic shift in which software companies are…

— Marc Andreessen

“The computers were index-linked to the Galactic stock-market prices, you see, so that we’d all be revived when everybody else had rebuilt the economy…

— Douglas Adams