Quotes About Computing

You can create art and beauty with a computer.

I first learnt to program a computer when I was nine, when my dad got a ZX80, but I think I would have had to be a particularly perspicacious child to have foreseen the iPad or Twitter!

The purpose of computers is human freedom.

You can and must understand computers now.

Computers don't lie, but liars can compute.

If I were a 13-year-old and I wanted to create subversive art, I wouldn't go out and buy an electric guitar. I'd get myself a personal computer.

We chose it because we deal with huge amounts of data. Besides, it sounds really cool.

Back in high school I told my dad, "I'm going to have a computer someday." And he said that it cost as much as a house-the downpayment on a house. And I said, "Well, I'll live in an apartment."

I'm an engineer. I'm a techie, really.

That awkward moment you realize Docker is an IFrame. This is worse than that time I realized MMU's were NAT's.

If Al Gore invented the Internet, I invented spell check.

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

Indeed. With NT, I can usually see in a matter of minutes that what I'm trying to do simply can't be done with the available software.

making a bootable disk image and checking on your old machine

Computer games tend to be boys' games, warlike games with more violence. We have not spent enough time thinking through how to encourage more girls to be involved in computing before coming to college so they can see a possible career in information technology.

There are many different kinds of PCs. You have fixed, virtual, tablets, notebooks, ultrabooks, desktops, workstations. What you find in commercial PCs, business PCs, is that there's a really long tail of usage on client devices.

If the Net becomes the center of the universe, which is what seems to be happening, then the dizzying array of machines that will be plugged into it will virtually guarantee that the specifics of which chip and which operating system you've got will be irrelevant.

The virtue of binary is that it's the simplest possible way of representing numbers. Anything else is more complicated. You can catch errors with it, it's unambiguous in its reading, there are lots of good things about binary. So it is very, very simple once you learn how to read it.

After all, just one virus on a computer is one too many.

Social computing is doing what agile methodology is doing to our process - it's breaking down our visibility.

Computers and computing are all around us. Some computing is highly visible, like your laptop. But this is only part of a computing iceberg. A lot more lies hidden below the surface. We don't see and usually don't think about the computers inside appliances, cars, airplanes, cameras, smartphones, GPS navigators and games.

That annoying moment when you accidentally close the wrong tab...

I just bought a Mac to help me design the next Cray.

In the end, I hope there's a little note somewhere that says I designed a good computer.