Quotes About Computing

Information theory began as a bridge from mathematics to electrical engineering and from there to computing.

Because of the Turing completeness theory, everything one Turing-complete language can do can theoretically be done by another Turing-complete language, but at a different cost. You can do everything in assembler, but no one wants to program in assembler anymore.

Gene therapy technology is much like computing technology. We had to build the super computer which cost $8 million in 1960. Now everyone has technologies that work predictably and at a cost the average person can afford.

The fundamental problem with vi is that it doesn't have a mouse and therefore you've got all these commands.

Although computer chips now are thinner, they're more powerful, they're not as reliable. You'd harvest computer chips from the 1980s from all around the world because they're reliable.

Millennials, and the generations that follow, are shaping technology. This generation has grown up with computing in the palm of their hands. They are more socially and globally connected through mobile Internet devices than any prior generation. And they don't question; they just learn.

You can see a zoomable sixteen-billion-pixel version on your home computer, an online visualization that its creators, Haltadefinizione, claim to be "the highest definition photograph ever in the world.

Computer : a million morons working at the speed of light.

The inside of a computer is as dumb as hell but it goes like mad!

No computer has ever been designed that is ever aware of what it's doing; but most of the time, we aren't either.

Persuading through Simplifying - Using computing technology to reduce complex behavior to simple tasks increases the benefit/cost ratio of the behavior and influences users to perform the behavior.

Too few people recognize that the high technology so celebrated today is essentially a mathematical technology.

Moore's Law - The number of transistors and resistors on a chip doubles every 24 months

Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration.

We've tended to forget that no computer will ever ask a new question.

When the PC was launched, people knew it was important.

We are not even close to finishing the basic dream of what the PC can be.

Beauty is more important in computing than anywhere else in technology because software is so complicated. Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity.

I love software and I love technology.

Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO is the answer.

Animation has always been about technology. You can't have animation without technology.

My computer must be broken: whenever I ask a wrong question, it gives a wrong answer.

Today's meters are little computers.

Technological innovation has dramatically lowered the cost of computing, making it possible for large numbers of consumers to own powerful new technologies at reasonably low prices.