Quotes About Computing

As long as we can make them smaller, we can make them faster.

If you ask people whether a computer can be smarter than a human, 99.9 percent will say that's science fiction. Actually, it's inevitable. It's guaranteed to happen.

It is remarkable that a gigantic, city-size computer is required to simulate a piece of human tissue that weighs three pounds, fits inside your skull, raises your body temperature by only a few degrees, uses twenty watts of power, and needs only a few hamburgers to keep it going.

your cell phone today has more computer power than all of NASA when it put two men on the moon in 1969.

And Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, said in 1943, "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.

La ley de Moore dice simplemente que la potencia de los ordenadores se duplica más o menos cada dieciocho meses.

la ley de Moore, que afirma que la potencia de computación se duplica cada dieciocho meses.

El reconocimiento de patrones, como ya hemos visto, es uno de los principales obstáculos para la inteligencia artificial.

I would love to see all open-source innovation happen on top of Windows.

A stack of five off-the-shelf terabyte hard drives fits comfortably within a sphere of radius 50 centimeters, whose surface is covered by about 1070 Planck cells. The surface's storage capacity is thus about 1070 bits, which is about a billion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion terabytes, and so enormously exceeds anything you can buy. No one in Silicon Valley cares much about these theoretical constraints.

Wozniak had a breakthrough: He had pulled together chips, a power supply, a monitor, and a keyboard.

It was now the age of visualization, when abstract concepts as well as basic needs and wants were increasingly expressed in visual terms. From its origins as a number cruncher, the computer had gone Hollywood; it was now an image maker of vast power. Thus, graphics in many ways defined the look and feel of computing. Cutler

The harbinger of a revolution, the Altair was the first mass-marketed personal computer. For the first time a computer was dedicated not just to a single task but to one person. The old guard of computing entirely missed the significance of this.

Compact code was inherently good since it consumed less internal memory. Consisting of slivers of silicon chips called DRAM ("dynamic-random-access-memories"), internal memory was like a gas tank. The larger the tank, the farther the car would go. The smaller the operating program, the more gas was left for all other programs. Because

It wasn't until five years after the first 360 hardware was introduced in 1964 that all of its software ran well. By then, IBM had spent nearly as much writing the software as designing the hardware. This astonished the company's managers and vividly highlighted "the greatest impediment to advances in computer technology," the problem of managing large software projects. At

In a certain sense, choosing an operating system was similar to buying a car. Besides the purchase price, there was a cost of ownership. The size of an operating system largely determined the amount of memory required by the computer. Just as some cars guzzled gas, some operating systems consumed large amounts of memory.

Programming "was just the most bizarre situation, because you're used to doing something and thinking you've done it right," he later said. "But it isn't right. You just don't notice it isn't right. On a computer there is no consolation in discovering you're almost right. Almost means you're still just wrong." Even

Computers are great for experimentation, but they're bad for deep thinking.

even computers can process only one piece of code at a time. When they "multitask," they switch back and forth, alternating their attention until both tasks are done.

What Jacob and Monod had discovered, in essence, was that each gene acts like a single line in a computer program.

The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.

Stateless objects are always thread-safe.

Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI)

Estimates put the current number of Internet-connected devices at 10 billion.