Quotes About Computing

Our goal in education should be to foster the ability to use the computer in everything you do, even if you don't have a specific piece of software for the job.

I remember mentioning to friends back in 1938 that the world chess champion would be beaten by a computer in 50 years time. Today we know computers are not far from this goal.

The vision is really that in the information age the microprocessor-based machine, the PC, along with great software, can become sort of the ultimate tool dealing with not just text, but numbers and pictures, and eventually, even difficult things lik.

Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are.

Moore's Law, the 1965 prediction that the amount of computing power you can buy for a dollar will double every 18 months. Gordon Moore's formula has surprised everyone with its consistency.

In 20 or 30 years, you'll be able to hold in your hand as much computing knowledge as exists now in the whole city, or even the whole world.

designing the effort to fit the constraints, rather than computing the constraints from the design, is absolutely the most effective way to achieve reliable delivery.

There are 10 kinds of people in the world: Those who understand binary, and those who don't.

In CS, it can be hard to explain the difference between the easy and the virtually impossible," reads the caption.

The term machine learning entered the lexicon in 1959, according to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED).

As computing became a highly paid profession, women were also edged out. It was the result of deliberate choices.

I was one of six undergraduate women majoring in computer science at a university of twenty thousand

LINC "was the first machine that you could take apart and put in the back of your car, carry somewhere else, put back together again, and it would run," Ornstein recalled. "That idea had never previously seemed conceivable.

If you buy a 486 with a SuperVGA, you'll get performance that knocks your socks off, especially if you run Windows.

When you start a session in R, the variables you create are in the global environment .GlobalEnv

True utility computing centers are on the horizon, but right now, the only real ones are a pale approximation of this vision. In the world that the other 99.9% of us inhabit, production systems are deployed to some relatively fixed set of resources. Applications

Today, your cell phone has more computer power than all of NASA back in 1969, when it placed two astronauts on the moon. Video games, which consume enormous amounts of computer power to simulate 3-D situations, use more computer power than mainframe computers of the previous decade. The Sony PlayStation of today, which costs $300, has the power of a military supercomputer of 1997, which cost millions of dollars.

Well Microsoft really does develop some really interesting technology.

Perl was designed as a programming language for automating system administration.

Symbolic AI takes human-readable observations about the world and builds them into an expert system that allows a computer to make deductions and decisions.

the nerve cells respond to electrical impulses much as an electron tube does.

What the dominant classes hold as true tends to shape social and political practice. If the elites hold a materialism that reduces humans to computers, then they will treat people like computers. Thinking will be reduced to computing: the neuroelectrophysiology of the brain. People will be judged solely by how well they perform their assigned functions. And when they stop functioning, they will be tossed in the garbage heap with the other electronic trash.

Geeks Do It with More Ram.

the computer is never a neutral tool. It influences, for better or worse, the way a person works and thinks.