Quotes About Computing

have so much computing power that central planning could work better than the market. High-frequency trading has been put forth as an example of computers out-achieving the market proper, but instead of improving the system it's just been used to take rents on every exchange. This

Biological knowledge multiplied by Computing power multiplied by Data equals Ability to Hack Humans.

b × c × d = ahh! Biological knowledge multiplied by Computing power multiplied by Data equals Ability to Hack Humans.

Hence paradoxically, as we accumulate more data and increase our computing power, events become wilder and more unexpected.

But computers have changed the world for everyone, so there will be some way of working it out.

UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity

Remember, when you connect with another computer, you're connecting to every computer that computer has connected to.

My knowledge of the human psyche is as yet imperfect. Certain areas won't yield to computation.

The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers.

Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster. (Or, sometimes known by] Grove [the head of Intel] giveth and Gates [the head of Microsoft] taketh away.)

Programming languages, like pizzas, come in only too sizes; too big and too small.

Fancy algorithms are slow when N is small, and N is usually small.

A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.

He had also written a computer

Python is good enough for code that only has to respond to a single user at human speed, but not usually for code that has to respond at machine speed

populations at scale. There is greater upheaval still to come. In 2019, Google announced it had achieved "quantum supremacy"—a computing breakthrough so powerful that a math problem a supercomputer would need ten thousand years to solve could be cracked by its machine in just three minutes and twenty seconds.

I just really like computers.

Turing machine.

You Can't Write Perfect Software. Did that hurt? It shouldn't. Accept it as an axiom of life. Embrace it. Celebrate it. Because perfect software doesn't exist. No one in the brief history of computing has ever written a piece of perfect software. It's unlikely that you'll be the first. And unless you accept this as a fact, you'll end up wasting time and energy chasing an impossible dream.

I had a laptop when they weighed 10 pounds.

When I first got to Apple, which was in '84, the Mac was already out, and 'Newsweek' contacted me and asked me what I thought of the Mac. I said, 'Well, the Mac is the first personal computer good enough to be criticized.'

Our lives sometimes depend on computers performing as predicted.

My first computer was a Commodore 64. I got it as a present from my mom when I was eight years old, and all I wanted to do with that computer was play games.

From an app point of view, if you looked at innovation on the PC, you'd be hard pressed to find companies innovating. The list is small.