Quotes About Computing

Automobiles and the automotive industry are increasingly driven by data and computing. The saying 'What's under the hood' will increasingly refer to computing, not horsepower.

If we don't figure out a way to have secure, connected healthcare, or connectivity and computing, we won't have that industry develop.

At my first job in the mid-to-late '90s, almost every product was from Microsoft. Everything was designed to work together - Windows for workgroups, shared M drives, etc., etc.

I couldn't tell you in any detail how my computer works. I use it with a layer of automation.

The cloud computing model may be a wonderful system when it works, but it's a nightmare when it fails. And the more people who come to depend upon it, the bigger the nightmare.

You can't replace luck and timing. With Workday, our timing was perfect. We started in 2005 right as cloud computing was beginning to take off.

We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.

90 percent of the time the terms are misused or unnecessary. Not every image obtained from a computer is a screen shot.

I think the PC will continue to be around for a long, long time to come. We see a new range of products evolving around the PC, but it's not going away.

The computer in your cell phone today is a million times cheaper and a thousand times more powerful and about a hundred thousand time smaller than the one computer at MIT in 1965.

Moore's Law, which says that their speed and complexity double every eighteen months.

In 2010, computerised trading systems created the stock-market Flash Crash; what would a computer-triggered crash look like in the defence arena?

These operations move memory around, perform some sort of basic math, or interrupt the processor to get it to do something else. In the end, that's all a computer processor can really do. But in the same way millions of books have been written using a relatively small alphabet of letters, an infinite number of possible programs can be created using a relatively small collection of machine instructions.

The fact that variables have types and cannot simply hold any kind of object is another important feature of the language that ensures safety and correctness of code.

The heart of software is its ability to solve domain-related problems for its user.

The behavior of running code is unambiguous.

Two objects are equal only if the variables containing the object references point to the same object.

Closures are a function along with a referencing environment.

You can't send functions:

If the two values have different types, try to convert them into the same type and then compare them

An expression is anything that evaluates to a value. 3+4

Here's the short story: functions are objects in JavaScript. In

in JavaScript just about everything is an object underneath, even

Now, when we have an environment that has a value for each of the free variables, we say that we've closed the function. And, when we take the function and the environment together, we say we have a closure.