Computers Quote by Ellen Ullman

“the system is not designed to generate the most rigorous standards. Only”

— Ted Koppel

Much to the surprise of the builders of the first digital computers, programs written for them usually did not work.

— Rodney Brooks

When I helped to develop the open standards that computers use to communicate with one another across the Net, I hoped for but could…

— Vint Cerf

Management does not know what a system is.

— W. Edwards Deming

“Software design as taught today is terribly incomplete. It talks only about what systems should do. It doesn’t address the converse—things systems should not…

— Michael T. Nygard

The principles governing the behavior of systems are not widely understood.

— Jay Wright Forrester

Microsoft is involved in setting some fairly key standards and people are afraid of it because they think, Geez, they are quite capable. It's…

— Bill Gates

The computer, being a mechanical moron, can handle only quantifiable data.

— Peter Drucker

Once you have a computer that can do a few things - strictly speaking, one that has a certain 'sufficient set' of basic procedures…

— Richard P. Feynman

Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.

— Anonymous

The belief that complex systems require armies of designers and programmers is wrong. A system that is not understood in its entirety, or at…

— Niklaus Wirth

The suddenness of the leap from hardware to software cannot but produce a period of anarchy and collapse, especially in the developed countries.

— Marshall McLuhan