Quotes About Computing

Babbage's Analytical Engine in the 1830s through ENIAC in the 1940s,

An operator watching his CRT display screen, giving commands to a computer via a keyboard and a handheld light gun, and sending data to other computers via a digital communications link:

M. Mitchell Waldrop

Since he'd based it on an earlier, experimental language by Thompson, code-named "B," Ritchie code-named his language "C.

M. Mitchell Waldrop

the inventor of general-purpose computer "time-sharing," a technique that let individual users interact with batch-processing behemoths in a way that looked very much like present-day personal computing.

I believe,' said Marcus Furius, 'that an order of male virgins who never see the light of day would be ideal for the operation of a computing machine such as this.

was not a coincidence that the two men who had the greatest impact on the shape of today's personal computer were among the earliest to fully comprehend the impact of the exponential scaling of microelectronic circuits.

religious experience, inspiring the same kinds of passion that Vannevar Bush's Memex article had given rise to for Engelbart twenty-three years earlier. Computing was just beginning to have an impact on society.

The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows.

There's an entire flight simulator hidden in every copy of Microsoft Excel 97.

Anyone with a little computer experience knows that anything can be copied bit-by-bit with the right equipment.

In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.

computer chips.

Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs.

Describing one competitive advantage of IBM's Deep Blue chess computer. It has no fear.

The best way to accelerate a Macintosh is at 9.8msecsec.

If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.

for calls iter, which calls __iter__

that's why we need recursion here: the number of nested loops is arbitrary, and depends on the length of the sequence permuted:

any function that contains a yield statement is turned into a generator function.

Windows 8 is key to the future, the Surface computer.

If the Internet turns out not to be the future of computing, we're toast. But if it is, we're golden.

Future generations will know there's nothing mystical about wetware because by 2100, Moore's law will have given us tiny quantum computers powerful enough to upload a human soul.