Quotes About Computing

The widespread adoption of broadband and the continued advances in personal computing technology are finally making it possible for the collective creation of an online world on a realistic scale.

People tend to look at processing power as how to gauge a piece of hardware is powerful for us.

By 2020, most home computers will have the computing power of a human brain. That doesn't mean that they are brains, but it means that in terms of raw processing, they can process bits as fast as a brain can. So the question is, how far behind that is the development of a machine that's as smart as we are?

The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.

public class MergeBU { private static Comparable[] aux; // auxiliary array for merges // See page 271 for merge() code. public static void sort(Comparable[] a) { // Do lg N passes of pairwise merges. int N = a.length; aux = new Comparable[N]; for (int sz = 1; sz < N; sz = sz+sz) // sz: subarray size for (int lo = 0; lo < N-sz; lo += sz+sz) // lo: subarray index merge(a, lo, lo+sz-1, Math.min(lo+sz+sz-1, N-1)); } }

I love memory sticks. They seem to me to be magic.

Computer Science: A study akin to numerology and astrology, but lacking the precision of the former and the success of the latter.

Remember that a computer is for computing and routers for routing

The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.

Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

Intel inside.

It's not a bug - it's an undocumented feature.

All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.

There are 10 types of people in this world: those who understand binary and those who don't.

Computers, huh? I've heard it all boils down to just a bunch of ones and zeroes.... I don't know how that enables me to see naked women, but however it works, God bless you guys.

Windows is just DOS in drag.

Software is slowing faster than hardware is accelerating.

If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into committees. That'll do them in.

In the binary system we count on our fists instead of on our fingers.

Do files get embarrassed when they're unzipped?

Shell to DOS... Come in DOS, do you copy Shell to DOS...

The NeXT Computer The hardware makes it a PC, the software makes it a workstation, the unit sales makes it a mainframe.

Linux has definitely made a lot of sense even in a purely materialistic sense.

To say that AI will start doing what it wants for its own purposes is like saying a calculator will start making its own calculations.