Computers Quote by Keith Rabois

Anyone can build a fast CPU. The trick is to build a fast system.

— Seymour Cray

Make a faster machine and people will flock to inefficient software.

— John C. Dvorak

To try to be happy is to try to build a machine with no other specification than that it shall run noiselessly.

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

To try to become happy is to try to build a machine with no other specifications than it shall run noiselessly.

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

A self-driving car will have 200-plus CPUs. That's a data center on wheels.

— Peter Levine

If you tell me precisely what it is a machine cannot do, then I can always make a machine which will do just that.

— John von Neumann

If we are going to build an ambitious machine, then it's got to be a global machine.

— Barry Barish

If you could utilize the resources of the end users' computers, you could do things much more efficiently.

— Niklas Zennstrom

If you wanted to build the most powerful computer you could, you can't do better than including everything in the universe that's potentially available.

— Seth Lloyd

Perhaps one day we will have machines that can cope with approximate task descriptions, but in the meantime, we have to be very prissy…

— Richard P. Feynman

My goal is to create friend machines. Friendly genius machines. Machines with genius capabilities.

— David Hanson

On the molecular scale, you find it's reasonable to have a machine that does a million steps per second, a mechanical system that works…

— K. Eric Drexler