Computers Quote by Steven Johnson

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

— Rodney Brooks

Twenty years ago the computer was a babbling box. Now it is a boasting beast.

— David Luiz

“The rules of software are the same today as they were in 1946, when Alan Turing wrote the very first code that would execute…

— Robert C. Martin

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

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

— Marvin Minsky

Thompson and Ritchie were among the first to realize that hardware and compiler technology had become good enough that an entire operating system could…

— Eric S. Raymond

“He learns that the form, in its current form, was originally called a formulary, and was invented by an Englishman named Charles Babbage, the…

— Stephen Dau

Every disruptive innovation is powered by a simplifying technology, and then the technology has to get embedded in a different kind of a business…

— Clayton Christensen

“By the 1960s, the electronic computer had become an integral tool of science, technology, and business. Without its capacities for memorizing, calculating, comparing, and…

— Courtney G. Brooks, James M. Grimwood, Loyd S. Swenson

The early personal computers were not very powerful so the idea of feeding their program into a small amount of memory requires immense skill.

— Bill Gates

It's the first company to build the mental position that has the upper hand, not the first company to make the product. IBM didn't…

— Al Ries

Computers sort of came around through games and toys. And you know, the first computer most people had in the house may have been…

— Rodney Brooks