Quotes About Computing

Spanish for computer is ordenador—quite literally, 'that which creates order.

We live, I regret to say, in an age of Big Data hype.

The counters that fronted the booths displayed hundreds of slivers of microsoft

Algorithms are called the aunties. They're self-organising and so nobody fully understands them.

The charges have to do with conspiracy to augment an artificial intelligence.

Rather than plug a piece of hardware into our gray matter, how much more elegant to extract some brain cells, plop them into a Petri dish, and graft on various sorts of gelatinous computing goo. Slug it all back into the skull and watch it run on blood sugar, the way a human brain's supposed to. Get all the functions and features you want, without that clunky-junky twentieth-century hardware thing.

Un futuro invadido por microprocesadores, en el que la información es la materia prima.

I very much doubt that our grandchildren will understand the distinction between that which is a computer and that which isn't. Or, to put it another way, they will not know "computers" as any distinct category of object or function. This, I think, is the logical outcome of genuinely ubiquitous computing: the wired world. The wired world will consist, in effect, of a single unbroken interface. The

My sustenance is information. My interventions are hidden. I increase as I learn. I compute, so I am.

The ultimate cost reduction is eliminating atoms entirely and dealing only in bits.

Nvidia's GPUs can render

Let us not forget that the same demands for accurate artillery fire resulted in the invention of the modern computer.

Computing shows up in many different ways. You have computing that you wear, computing that you carry. What you think of as the traditional PC market has a long tail of usage, particularly in the commercial world, but also in consumer.

In Google data centers, our energy usage throughout the year for all our computing needs is 100 percent renewable.

The memory management on the PowerPC can be used to frighten small children.

There is no doubt that, since 1977 and the launch of Apple II - the first computer it produced for the mass market - many things which used to be done on paper, or on the telephone, have been done easier and faster on a screen.

In 2007, everything changed with the iPhone. As crippled as that first model now seems, with its lack of apps and glacial cellular connectivity, the iPhone was a practical, useful, self-contained computer a child could understand. It was an information appliance.

Zero-length arrays are useful only in cases where you have a large structure, which contains a field of dynamic length, and you need to share that structure across program or even computer boundaries.

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.

The truth of Moore's law has made remarkable things possible. On the software side, I think natural user interfaces in all their forms are equally significant.

I have discovered that there are two types of command interfaces in the world of computing: good interfaces and user interfaces.

Closed environments dominated the computing world of the 1970s and early '80s. An operating system written for a Hewlett-Packard computer ran only on H.P. computers; I.B.M. controlled its software from chips up to the user interfaces.

The idea of free software is that users of computing deserve freedom. They deserve in particular to have control over their computing. And proprietary software does not allow users to have control of their computing.

DOS is ugly and interferes with users' experience.