Quotes About Computing

I was hired as a computer programmer for a national laboratory at age 15.

Before coming to Congress, I worked as a computer programmer and a systems analyst.

In the beginning, there were Real Programmers.

Nobody programmes the brain, yet it keeps learning. India shouldn't miss the emerging age of brain-inspired computing.

There was something amazingly enticing about programming.

Programming is the art of algorithm design and the craft of debugging errant code.

After graduating in 1973 I went into the programming field.

It's very hard to explain to people who don't program, but the object-oriented programming system made programming the Mac and iPhone so easy.

If I'm being completely honest, when it comes to artificial intelligence and computer programming... I bought this little book at Barnes and Noble called 'Artificial Intelligence for Dummies' and that was quite a helpful resource for my work.

Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that.

My earliest interest in game design came when I was in primary school, and my parents bought a Commodore 128 computer. I taught myself to write programs in BASIC, and then I made my own games.

As more intelligent computer assistance comes into being, it will amplify human progress.

The rise of Google, the rise of Facebook, the rise of Apple, I think are proof that there is a place for computer science as something that solves problems that people face every day.

I think the Macintosh proves that everyone can have a bitmapped display.

My father, an entrepreneur but hardly a technologist, was looking to buy a computer to 'automate' our family business. In 1981, he characteristically dove head first into computing and bought an Osborne I.

I grew up as a computer scientist, and I've always been fascinated by algorithms.

This digital world is completely fascinating to me.

I was always a computer kid, and I grew up with the Internet and always found it fascinating.

My first computer was an IBM Display Writer. With all its components, it was roughly the size of a bass fishing boat.

Robotics is very interdisciplinary, and so, except at a very few colleges, there is not a major that is exactly fitted to robotics.

People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.

Whoever invented double clicking should be shot in the head! Twice!

The Analytical Engine does not occupy common ground with mere 'calculating machines.' It holds a position wholly its own, and the considerations it suggests are more interesting in their nature.

Cloud computing means you are doing your computing on somebody else's computer. Looking ahead a little, I firmly believe cloud - previously called grid computing - will become very widespread. It's much cheaper than buying your own computing infrastructure, or maybe you don't have the power to do what you want on your own computer.