Quotes About Computing

In computing, everything happens inside this rectangular screen. I want to get the pixels out, paint the world, and allow us to interact with it.

When I started at Microsoft, I was lucky enough to be part of the rise of the client-server paradigm.

We've spent a half-century believing that people should become computer literate. That's precisely backward. Computing should become human literate.

Windows NT crashed. I am the Blue Screen of Death. No one hears your screams.

Then there's a third thing, which may seem like a small thing but I don't think it is. Which is that in an infix world, every operator is next to both of its operands. In a prefix world it isn't. You have to do more work to see the other operand.

When I wrote Volume I of The Art of Computer Programming people didn't realize that they could use linked lists in their own programs, that they could use pointers for data structures.

Brüks had never been entirely clear on what an omniscient being would need a computer for. Computation, after all, implied a problem not yet solved, insights not yet achieved. There was really only one sort of program for which foreknowledge of the outcome didn't diminish the point of the exercise, and Brüks had never been able to find any religious orders that described God as a porn addict.)

Our lives sometimes depend on computers performing as predicted.

Augmented reality will drive all things like chat, social networking, photos, videos, organizing data, modeling, painting, motion capture, and visual programming. Every form of computing will be combined together and unified in a single platform.

When I step back and look at what's important to AMD, it's about graphics leadership - visual computing leadership - as well as a strong computing experience. We have the capability to integrate those two together.

Google Glass is the wearable computer that responds to voice commands and displays information on a visual display.

Yo subrayé cierto pasaje en el manual de Leusden; ese pasaje manifiesta que los hebreos computaban el día de ocaso a ocaso; ese pasaje da a entender que las muertes ocurrieron el cuatro de cada mes. Yo mandé el triángulo equilátero a Treviranus. Yo presentí que usted agregaría el punto que falta.

There's been a big evolution since the days of personal computing. People had a concept of one computing device per family or maybe per person. We've clearly evolved to computing devices becoming more personal.

You could claim that moving from pixelated perception, where the robot looks at sensor data, to understanding and predicting the environment is a Holy Grail of artificial intelligence.

They've finally comes up with the perfect office computer. If it makes a mistake, it blames another computer.

The act of voting, to put it in computing terms, is a question of user interface.

You don't need to be a spook to care about encryption. If you travel with your computer or keep it in a place where other people can put their hands on it, you're vulnerable.

It's pretty clear that machine learning is going to a big part of science and engineering.

Blame me for having to type the backslash in DOS.

When I started working with a computer, to me it was kind of like animating with a backhoe. But when you see the results, it just blows your mind.

I bought a laptop in 1999, and it was quite liberating, because I could make a lot of my own decisions.

Our computers double in capability on time scales of only a few years. It's hardly outrageous to believe that we will successfully develop thinking machines within a handful of decades, or at most a century or two. If that happens, these artificial sentients will quickly leave us behind.

Once you have a computer that can do a few things - strictly speaking, one that has a certain 'sufficient set' of basic procedures - it can do basically anything any other computer can do. This, loosely, is the basis of the great principle of 'Universality'.

Think of this for a moment. In eighteen milliliters of water (about two swallows full), there are 6 x 1023 molecules of H2O. How much is 6 x 1023? A good computer can carry out ten million counts per second. It would take that computer two billion years to count to 6 x 1023. Look