Quotes About Computing

This is a very exciting time in the world of information. It's not just that the personal computer has come along as a great tool. The whole pace of business is moving faster. Globalization is forcing companies to do things in new ways.

People everywhere love Windows.

DOS is ugly and interferes with users' experience.

I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.

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Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.

I use the iPhone and iPad every day, and I no longer touch PCs at all.

I suppose many people will continue moving towards careless computing, because there's a sucker born every minute.

Computers sort of came around through games and toys. And you know, the first computer most people had in the house may have been a computer to play 'Pong,' a little microprocessor embedded, and then other games that came after that.

We created the hierarchical, pyramidal, managerial system because we needed it to keep track of people and things people did; with the computer to keep track, we can restructure our institutions horizontally.

No one can keep track of how many people use Internet, how many machines it can reach, or even how many sub- and sub-sub-networks form a part of it.

My favorite travel pastime is writing music, either with my guitar or on my computer.

I favor pocket-sized hard drives that travel between home and office, syncing with computers on both ends.

Face-to-face with a computer, people reflected on who they were in the mirror of the machine.

There are no projects per se in the Computing Sciences Research Center.

They're very strong in memory. Didn't do very much in microprocessors or digital signal processing.

A Mac is a closed box, so Apple can make decisions about things that they don't include. That makes, it in some ways, simpler for them.

The computer industry began with home-brew boxes that everyone had to program for themselves, but that was a huge hassle. The computer revolution didn't explode until the first Macintosh arrived, with its point-and-click simplicity.

Even complex passwords are getting easy to break if they're too short. That's because today's inexpensive computer chips have the power of supercomputers from the year 2000.

The major thing is to view biology as an information science.

While I admire the insights of many of the people in the world of computing, I get this cold feeling that I speak a different language.

Artificial intelligence... I've been following that since I was in high school.

The interesting thing about cloud computing is that we've redefined cloud computing to include everything that we already do.

What was so special about the Mac, we all know, was the graphical computer interface.