Quotes About Computing

I was shocked that I knew so little about Alan Turing. Then I started to read about him, and I got a little obsessed.

We don't use the word 'intelligence' with software. We regard that as a naive idea. We say that it's 'complex.' Which means that we don't always understand what it's doing.

The computer is also not famous for having mercy.

Not even PEBKAC this time," Van said. Problem Exists Between Keyboard and Chair.

Now he was about to launch the Macintosh, a machine that violated many of the principles of the hacker's code: It was overpriced; it would have no slots, which meant that hobbyists could not plug in their own expansion cards or jack into the motherboard to add their own new functions; and it took special tools just to open the plastic case. It was a closed and controlled system, like something designed by Big Brother rather than by a hacker.

Mauchly and Eckert should be at the top of the list of people who deserve credit for inventing the computer, not because the ideas were all their own but because they had the ability to draw ideas from multiple sources, add their own innovations, execute their vision by building a competent team, and have the most influence on the course of subsequent developments. The machine they built was the first general-purpose electronic computer.

It made it clear to me that Gates was not the kind of person that would understand or appreciate the elegance of a Macintosh.

Many people suppose that computing machines are replacements for intelligence and have cut down the need for original thought," Wiener wrote. "This is not the case."14 The more powerful the computer, the greater the premium that will be placed on connecting it with imaginative, creative, high-level human thinking.

Apple's innovations were more than skin-deep. Since 1994 it had been using a microprocessor, called the PowerPC, that was

Ethernet, the technologies developed by Bob Metcalfe

The Lisa was conceived as a $2,000 machine based on a sixteen-bit microprocessor, rather than

The GUI was made possible by bitmapping, another innovation pioneered at Xerox PARC.

As Jobs walked the floor of the Personal Computer Festival, he came to the realization that Paul Terrell of the Byte Shop had been right: Personal computers

LISP, which was designed to facilitate artificial intelligence research.

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The idea of a personal computer, one that ordinary individuals could get their hands on and take home, was envisioned in 1945 by Vannevar Bush.

A program called SNDMSG allowed a user of a big central computer to send a message to the personal folder of another user who was sharing the same computer.

Engelbart showed, back in 1968, nearly everything that a networked personal computer does today.

Computers today are brilliant idiots

En palabras de George Dyson: «El computador de programa almacenado, tal y como lo imaginó Alan Turing y lo plasmó John von Neumann, diluyó la distinción entre números que significan cosas y números que hacen cosas. Nuestro universo nunca volvería a ser el mismo».

performance" would double every eighteen months because of the increased power as well as the increased numbers of transistors that would be put onto a microchip.

Shortly before she died in 2011, Jean Jennings Bartik reflected proudly on the fact that all the programmers who created the first general-purpose computer were women: "Despite our coming of age in an era when women's career opportunities were generally quite confined, we helped initiate the era of the computer.

The combination of GNU and Linux created an operating system that has been ported to more hardware platforms, ranging from the world's ten biggest supercomputers to embedded systems in mobile phones, than any other operating system.

Jobs was blown away by bitmapping. "It was like a veil being lifted from my eyes," he recalled. "I could see what the future of computing was destined to be.