Computing Quotes

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The object of geometry in all its measuring and computing, is to ascertain with exactness the plan of the great Geometer, to penetrate the veil… — Benjamin Peirce
In 20 or 30 years, you'll be able to hold in your hand as much computing knowledge as exists now in the whole city, or… — Douglas Engelbart
The computing field is always in need of new cliches. — Alan Perlis
Men are noisy, narrow-band devices, but their nervous systems have very many parallel and simultaneously active channels. Relative to men, computing machines are very fast… — J. C. R. Licklider
I would like to emphasize strongly my belief that the era of computing chemists, when hundreds if not thousands of chemists will go to the… — Robert S. Mulliken
These are the men who, without virtue, labour, or hazard, are growing rich, as their country is impoverished; they rejoice, when obstinacy or ambition adds… — Samuel Johnson
Access to supercomputers. The science is well ahead of our ability to implement it. It's quite clear that if we could run our models at… — Julia Slingo
The power efficiency of computing has improved by a factor of a billion from the ENIAC computer of the 1950s to today's handheld devices. Fundamental… — R. Stanley Williams
In the 'Disruptive Broadcasting' space, TV on IP networks is now just another application in a broadband world. We have already seen the transformation of… — Jeff Pulver
Cultural perspective on gender diversity in computing, — Lenore Blum
Only the heart knows the correct answer. Most people think the heart is mushy and sentimental. But it's not. The heart is intuitive; it's holistic,… — Deepak Chopra
Right up till the 1980s, SF envisioned giant mainframe computers that ran everything remotely, that ingested huge amounts of information and regurgitated it in startling… — Walter Jon Williams
And Archimedes, as he was washing, thought of a manner of computing the proportion of gold in King Hiero's crown by seeing the water flowing… — Plutarch
To me, thought-controlled computing is as simple and powerful as a paintbrush - one more tool to unlock and enliven the hidden worlds within us. — Ariel Garten
[The] dynamics of computational artifacts extend beyond the interface narrowly defined, to relations of people with each other and to the place of computing in… — Lucy Suchman
No one has a monopoly on knowledge the way that, say, IBM had in the 1960s in computing, or that Bell Labs had through the… — Henry Chesbrough
More computing sins are committed in the name of efficiency (without necessarily achieving it) than for any other single reason - including blind stupidity. — William Wulf
Using Unix is the computing equivalent of listening only to music by David Cassidy. — Rob Pike
In 2000, when my partner Ben Horowitz was CEO of the first cloud computing company, Loudcloud, the cost of a customer running a basic Internet… — Marc Andreessen
Instruction tables will have to be made up by mathematicians with computing experience and perhaps a certain puzzle-solving ability. There need be no real danger… — Alan Turing

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