Quotes About Computing

I just bought a Mac to help me design the next Cray.

I'm going to be in technology for a long time.

With all the abundance we have of computers and computing, what is scarce is human attention and time.

Programmers who program into a language first decide what thoughts they want to express, and then they determine how to express those thoughts using the tools provided by their specific language.

Computing pioneer Edsger Dijkstra pointed out that computing is the only profession in which a single mind is obliged to span the distance from a bit to a few hundred megabytes, a ratio of 1 to 109, or nine orders of magnitude (Dijkstra 1989).

No system today can duplicate a person's ability to recognize both many words and many speakers. Perhaps the state of the art is a system called DragonDictate, which runs on a personal computer and can recognize 30,000 words.

People everywhere love Windows.

I love that the world is data intensive … unfortunately, it's called 'Big Data.'

Often people think of developments in computation as arising when we make our computers more blazingly fast, so they can compute more stuff , bigger data . It's actually just as important to prune away big parts of the data that aren't relevant to the problem at hand! The fastest computation is the one you don't do.

Today, we could maybe store the information contained in one of your toenails if we used every computer in existence.

How the fuck do you negotiate with a piece of software?

The only legitimate use of a computer is to play games. —Eugene Jarvis, creator of Defender

In affective computing, which is a field that is rapidly becoming popular, the aim is to have computer systems that can recognize and take into account human affects, that is, the observed manifestations of emotions.

E-mail is the most influential application ever to appear on a personal computer, and it remains sadly deficient.

With our next generation hardware, polygon rendering will probably be an area we'll get more heavily into.

I'm happy to report that the first Chromebook designed from the ground up to run Android apps out of the box has arrived, albeit a little past the end of 2016.

The whole idea of how people will learn computer science, I believe will be through game development.

Digital imaging is as much about chemistry as it is about semiconductors.

I see a bright future for the future of computing and its implications for games.

The PC is an important part of our business and will continue to be for a long, long time.

No consumer product improves more drastically, year after year, than the computer.

Cloud computing is a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction.

We're building what's called a private cloud for them [the C.I.A.] ... because they don't want to be on the public cloud.

The power of the computer is starting to spread.