Computers Quote by Paul Allen

A source of strength in the early days was that groups in various parts of the world were prepared to construct experimental computers without…

— Maurice Wilkes

My colleagues and I were engineers who worked for DCM's calculator division. These electronic calculators used digital integrated circuits, and then they started using…

— Shiv Nadar

I had a running compiler and nobody would touch it. They told me computers could only do arithmetic.

— Grace Hopper

Early on, when software was developed by computer scientists, just people working with computers, people passed around software because that was how you got…

— Tim O'Reilly

I started working at a point in history when digital computers were becoming mature, and before that, there were no such machines.

— Marvin Minsky

Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs.

— Seth Lloyd

In the beginning, there were Real Programmers.

— Eric S. Raymond

Look at what Silicon Valley has done - the advance of computers.

— Buzz Aldrin

Just think, IBM and DEC in the same room, and we did it.

— Ken Thompson

When the first computers started to come in, we tried to digitalize the seismological equipment.

— Frank Press

What a lot of people don't know, because in a lot of TV and movies, they have a lot of men talking about computers…

— Lisa Ling

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

— Rodney Brooks