Quotes About Computing

Huh? Windows was designed to keep the idiots away from Unix so we could hack in peace. Let's not break that.

Nowadays, using a computer has become a way of life.

Programmers have a saying: "garbage in, garbage out.

What the gears cannot do the computer might. The computer is the Proteus of machines. Its essence is its universality, its power to simulate

It should be mandatory that you understand computer science.

Since 1941, according to his biographer Andrew Hodges, Turing had been watching his proto-computers and decided that originality and intuition were processes that could be computed.

Not only is there constant backtracking, but the many subproblems all remain simultaneously active and are addressed opportunistically.

As with any computing device, understanding the brain involves characterizing the properties of its main components (neurons), the nature of their connections (synapses), and the pattern of interconnections (wiring diagram).

He was working on neural networks and digital quantum processes, that sort of thing." "I have no idea what you're talking about." "He was trying to get computers to think, to replicate the human brain.

Software comes from heaven when you have good hardware.

In five years I don't think there'll be a reason to have a tablet anymore. Maybe a big screen in your workspace, but not a tablet as such. Tablets themselves are not a good business model.

Algorithms don't do a good job of detecting their own flaws.

Good morning, doctors. I have taken the liberty of removing Windows 95 from my hard drive.

The computing world is very good at things that we are not. It is very good at memory.

I wanted to have virtual memory, at least as it's coupled with file systems.

Interesting - I use a Mac to help me design the next Cray.(when he was told that Apple Inc. had recently bought a Cray supercomputer to help them design the next Mac )

I wish I could have 25,000 years of my personal family history documented in a very powerful computer or a CD-ROM that I could just pop in and my computer would never crash

The whole history of computers is rampant with cheerleading at best and bigotry at worst.

When someone says, "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done," give him a lollipop.

It is impossible to work in information technology without also engaging in social engineering.

When we launched Lambda, the first serverless compute service, it was a watershed moment.

Cloud computing is the third wave of the digital revolution.

5G cell networks create a whole new wave of distributed and edge computing.

Microsoft does platform, not really infrastructure, and they do a little bit of Saas.