Quotes About Computing

FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed - it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.

Megahertz: This is really, really big hertz.

Unless you are very rich and very eccentric, you will not enjoy the luxury of a computer in your own home.

I always say that my favorite game was Original Adventure, published by both Microsoft and Apple Computer back in 1980.

Bandwidth grows at least three times faster than computer power.

The computer revolution is a revolution in the way we think and in the way we express what we think.

If you put tomfoolery into a computer, nothing comes out of it but tomfoolery. But this tomfoolery, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow enobled and no-one dares criticize it.

Let's face it, the average computer user has the brain of a Spider Monkey.

My iPhone has 2 million times the storage of the 1969 Apollo 11 computer. They went to the moon. I throw birds at pig houses

Practically everyone is going to have a general purpose computer in their pocket, it's so easy to underestimate that, that has got to be the really, really big one.

I am rarely happier than when spending an entire day programming my computer.

Computer scientists are the historians of computing.

Whereas smaller computer languages have features designed into them, C++ is unusual in having a whole swathe of functionality discovered, like a tract of 19th century Africa.

I have three desks. One empty for paperwork, one for the internet and email, and one for the writing computer.

It's hard to replace the gray matter that is inherent in every human being. No computer can do it quite that well yet.

Above all, remember that the computer simply isn't as intelligent as you are.

A computer can have so much more in its brain that a human can.

Computer science is the most misunderstood field there is. You are being paid to solve puzzles. For a person who has practiced meditation in past lives, that is the way your mind works.

The computer allows me to execute my ideas at the speed I think them.

The computer does things that can't be done with hardware, like freezing sounds.

Writing a computer virus program is child's play. Any fool can do it, which is why the silly little twerps who do have nothing to be proud of.

You don't need to be a computer scientist to use a Windows Phone. I think you do to use an Android phone.

The computer, being a mechanical moron, can handle only quantifiable data.

Computer viruses are alive.