Quotes About Computing

I know of no person or group that is taking nearly adequate advantage of the graphical potentialities of the computer.

I don't even have my own computer.

The computer would do anything you programmed it to do.

No one will need more than 637Kb of memory for a personal computer

I feel certain that the personal computer is as revolutionary in terms of the way it will change the way we work, learn, and entertain ourselves as any of these previous advances.

With Scratch, we want to let kids to be the creators. We want them to create interesting, dynamic things on the computer.

When somebody has learned how to program a computer ... You're joining a group of people who can do incredible things. They can make the computer do anything they can imagine.

The computer is a moron.

All problems in computer graphics can be solved with a matrix inversion.

The word user is the word used by the computer professional when they mean idiot.

I had a TV set and a typewriter and that made me think a computer should be laid out like a typewriter with a video screen.

If you give someone Fortran, he has Fortran. If you give someone Lisp, he has any language he pleases

I don't need a hard disk in my computer if I can get to the server faster... carrying around these non-connected computers is byzantine by comparison.

Computing is kind of a mess. Your computer doesn't know where you are. It doesn't know what you're doing. It doesn't know what you know.

All problems in Computer Science can be solved by another level of indirection.

A little-known truth: Every aspect of the world is fundamentally unpredictable. Computer scientists have long since proved this.

Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.

The Christian notion of the possibility of redemption is incomprehensible to the computer.

More and more software would just increase the number of tasks that the computer would help solve.

Owning a computer without programming is like having a kitchen and using only the microwave oven

The Macintosh was supposed to be the computer for people that just wanted to use a computer without having to learn how to use one.

When designers replaced the command line interface with the graphical user interface, billions of people who are not programmers could make use of computer technology.

It's not even known how many kinds of cells there are in the brain. If you were looking for a periodic table of the brain, there is no such thing. I really like to think of the brain as a computer.

The computer is important, but not to mathematics.