Computing Quotes

126 quotes by 92 authors

As we gradually learn to harness the optimal computing capacity of matter, our intelligence will spread through the universe at (or exceeding) the speed of… — Ray Kurzweil
Beauty is more important in computing than anywhere else in technology because software is so complicated. Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity. ... The… — David Gelernter
I think that it's extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing. When it started out, it was an awful lot of… — Alan Perlis
Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written and another for which it wasn't. — Alan Perlis
Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them. — Alan Perlis
If you stay up late and you have another hour of work to do, you can just stay up another hour later without running into… — Bill Joy
The standard definition of AI is that which we don't understand. — Bill Joy
My first program taught me a lot about the errors that I was going to be making in the future, and also about how to… — Donald Knuth
Each time you toss out a 'singing' greeting card, you are disposing of more computing power than existed in the entire world before 1950. — Paul Saffo
Stephen Wolfram is the creator of Mathematica and is widely regarded as the most important innovator in scientific and technical computing today. — Stephen Wolfram
Object-oriented design is the roman numerals of computing. — Rob Pike
The old computing was about what computers could do; the new computing is about what users can do. Successful technologies are those that are in… — Ben Shneiderman
Persuading through Simplifying - Using computing technology to reduce complex behavior to simple tasks increases the benefit/cost ratio of the behavior and influences users to… — B. J. Fogg
I think computing power is ready to do 3D justice. It was great for shooters and racing games in the past, but I didn't think… — Sid Meier
The interesting thing about cloud computing is that we've redefined cloud computing to include everything that we already do. I can't think of anything that… — Larry Ellison
Cloud computing is actually a spectrum of things complementing one another and building on a foundation of sharing. Inherent dualities in the cloud computing phenomenon… — Chris Howard
The infrastructure of today's computing environment is for good or ill structured around the Windows operating system. Can you get around that? Yes you can,… — Mark Hall
Personal computing today is a rich ecosystem encompassing massive PC-based data centers, notebook and Tablet PCs, handheld devices, and smart cell phones. It has expanded… — Bill Gates
At every juncture, advanced tools have been the key to a new wave of applications, and each wave of applications has been key to driving… — Bill Gates
Computing is kind of a mess. Your computer doesn't know where you are. It doesn't know what you're doing. It doesn't know what you know. — Larry Page

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