Computing Quotes

126 quotes by 92 authors

Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs founded Apple Inc, which set the computing world on its ear with the Macintosh in 1984. — Kevin Mitnick
The way Moore's Law occurs in computing is really unprecedented in other walks of life. If the Boeing 747 obeyed Moore's Law, it would travel… — Nathan Myhrvold
Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living. — Nicholas Negroponte
If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some. — Alan Perlis
Items of interest will be located, identified, monitored, and remotely controlled through technologies such as radio-frequency identification, sensor networks, tiny embedded servers, and energy harvesters… — David Petraeus
Back in 1995, Bill Gates himself didn't understand that the internet was the direction computing was going. — John Podhoretz
The computing world is very good at things that we are not. It is very good at memory. — Eric Schmidt
I suppose many people will continue moving towards careless computing, because there's a sucker born every minute. — Richard Stallman
One reason you should not use web applications to do your computing is that you lose control. — Richard Stallman
Technological innovation has dramatically lowered the cost of computing, making it possible for large numbers of consumers to own powerful new technologies at reasonably low… — James Surowiecki
Fairly cheap home computing was what changed my life. — Linus Torvalds
In the practical world of computing, it is rather uncommon that a program, once it performs correctly and satisfactorily, remains unchanged forever. — Niklaus Wirth
Cloud computing is a great euphemism for centralization of computer services under one server. — Evgeny Morozov
Computing should be taught as a rigorous - but fun - discipline covering topics like programming, database structures, and algorithms. That doesn't have to be… — Geoff Mulgan
The other terror that scares us from self-trust is our consistency; a reverence for our past act or word, because the eyes of others have… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Considering that we live in an era of evolutionary everything---evolutionary biology, evolutionary medicine, evolutionary ecology, evolutionary psychology, evolutionary economics, evolutionary computing---it was surprising how rarely… — Michael Crichton
Not fair? Oh, I'm sorry I get this lovely laptop computing device when all you get is the ability to walk, control your hands, and… — Jordan Sonnenblick
The best programs are written so that computing machines can perform them quickly and so that human beings can understand them clearly. A programmer is… — Donald Knuth
Computers are incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid: humans are incredibly slow, inaccurate and brilliant; together they are powerful beyond imagination. — Albert Einstein
Alan Turing gave us a mathematical model of digital computing that has completely withstood the test of time. He gave us a very, very clear… — George Dyson

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