Quote by Carl Hiaasen

The computer was born to solve problems that did not exist before.

— Bill Gates

“The law of computers is the same as the law of the marketplace. The earth's atmosphere was divided up into a network of cubes,…

— STEPHANE AUDEGUY

The workstation-class machines built by Sun and others opened up new worlds for hackers.

— Eric S. Raymond

The burgeoning field of computer science has shifted our view of the physical world from that of a collection of interacting material particles to…

— Paul Davies

It (the computer) is a medium that can dynamically simulate the details of any other medium, including media that cannot exist physically. It is…

— Alan Kay

“Computer scientists would call this a “ping attack” or a “denial of service” attack: give a system an overwhelming number of trivial things to…

— Brian Christian

“The oldest computer hardware I worked on was in professional astronomy.”

— Steven Magee

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

— Paul Allen

When the first computers started to come in, we tried to digitalize the seismological equipment.

— Frank Press

A source of strength in the early days was that groups in various parts of the world were prepared to construct experimental computers without…

— Maurice Wilkes

“It came from the world’s first computer – the Mark 1 – a room-size maze of electromechanical circuits built in 1944 in a lab…

— Dan Brown

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