Quotes About Computing

C++ offers a small zoo of fundamental types, but since I'm not a zoologist, I will not list them all.

Today, there's more computing power in a cell phone than there was on Apollo 11, and that brought us to the moon and back.

The cloud is one of the most extraordinary opportunities of our lifetime. If we're not investing now, we'll rue the day we didn't.

I'm an investor in a lot of things that have to do with human-computer interaction.

I think that some people will never buy a computer because I think now we're at the point where the iPad does what some people want to do with their PCs.

I think that I do about 85% of what I used to do on my computer now on my iPad.

Because people don't understand what computing is about, they think they have it in the iPhone, and that illusion is as bad as the illusion that 'Guitar Hero' is the same as a real guitar.

I saw myself as an electronic joy rider. I was like James Bond behind the computer. I was just having a blast.

The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows.

CND (Computer Network Defense) and CNA (Computer Network Attack); now there was also CNE (Computer Network Exploitation). CNE

Computer games tend to be boys' games, warlike games with more violence. We have not spent enough time thinking through how to encourage more girls to be involved in computing before coming to college so they can see a possible career in information technology.

That we plug in carts or CDs with megabytes of memory when only yesterday we were happy to have 64K or 128K in our Apple II and PC workhorses... that's nothing short of phenomenal.

The way Moore's Law occurs in computing is really unprecedented in other walks of life. If the Boeing 747 obeyed Moore's Law, it would travel a million miles an hour, it would be shrunken down in size, and a trip to New York would cost about five dollars. Those enormous changes just aren't part of our everyday experience.

We carry around computers in our pockets. Many people barely use them as phones. We use them as computers. If you think about the future, when you're traveling around, it's great to have a lightweight, small form factor.

Being CEO of AMD is a tremendous opportunity to influence the industry and influence the future of computing.

People are going to use more and more AI. Acceleration is going to be the path forward for computing. These fundamental trends, I completely believe in them.

Looking at the trends that we have gone through as a company, where we started the company, it's all about cloud computing, and we're still cloud computing. And then we went through this space on social. When Facebook came out, that was amazing.

Complex sequences exhibit an irregular, nonrepeating arrangement that defies expression by a general law or computer algorithm

An algorithm is a finite answer to an infinite number of questions.

Or you could do what is the essence of theoretical science: make a model that gives some kind of procedure for computing the answer rather than just measuring and remembering each case.

A mere 20 watts of energy are required to power the 22 billion neurons in a brain that's roughly the size of a grapefruit. To field a conventional computer with comparable cognitive capacity would require gigawatts of electricity and a machine the size of a football field.

You can do anything with stacks and iteration that you can do with recursion.

Worst of all was the flight software that handled data on board the rover, writing to and reading from the "flash" memory that was our equivalent of a computer's hard drive. The read and write commands too often just didn't work. The command we seemed to use the most was the one the Flight Software team called "SHUTDOWN_DAMMIT", which was like hitting CTRL-ALT-DEL on a personal computer, killing everything off and starting over.

I do as much debugging as possible on the Mac, but I occasionally must debug problems in the PC world, which is significantly slower.