Quotes About Computing

As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error.

The word user is the word used by the computer professional when they mean idiot.

User, n. The word computer professionals use when they mean "idiot."

The days when you needed amazing Silicon Graphics machines to run animation software are gone now.

Windows 7 is like a pumpkin: handsome and plump on the outside, but a big mess on the inside. So get out your knife and start carving.

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Let us reflect on the brief life of a bit

The universe is computing its own destiny.

Objetos são abstrações de procedimento. Threads são abstrações de agendamento.

I have a well-deserved reputation for being something of a gadget freak, and am rarely happier than when spending an entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to do by hand.

And to this end they built themselves a stupendous super-computer which was so amazingly intelligent that even before its data banks had been connected up it had started from I think therefore I am and got as far as deducing the existence of rice pudding and income tax before anyone managed to turn it off.

For seven and a half million years, Deep Thought computed and calculated, and in the end announced that the answer was in fact 42- and so another, even bigger, computer had to be built to find out what the actual question was.

Computer," said Zaphod, "tell us what our present trajectory is.

A computer that can calculate the Question to the Ultimate Answer, a computer of such infinite and subtle complexity that organic life itself shall form part of its operational matrix. And you yourselves shall take on new forms and go down into the computer to navigate its ten-million-year program! Yes! I shall design this computer for you. And I shall name is also unto you. And it shall be called... the Earth.

classic example of what we programmers call emergent behavior.

artificial intelligence.

the prototype version of the Internet, the Arpanet, was developed in nineteen sixty-nine, at UCLA. Nineteen sixty-nine.

Anyone know how USB drives work?

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

In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word 'frustration'.

Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.

Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020.

We culturally decided, as the personal computer came in, that it was for the boys.

Innovation will come from an ecosystem of pervasive computing so natural and all-encompassing that it disappears into the background.