Quotes About Computing

Data science is the combination of analytics and the development of new algorithms.

It's often hard to remember that the personal computing era is still quite young. It only dates from 1977, with the arrival of the first mass-market PCs.

The debate between the cloud and on-premise is largely dead. The cloud has become mainstream.

The IT industry is driven by consumer demand.

Well, the thought that everybody might have a personal computer at their desk or their home was certainly not on the mainstream of anybody's activity at that time.

Ubuntu is doing amazing things, and I think it's going to change the face of the desktop.

Perhaps one day we will have machines that can cope with approximate task descriptions, but in the meantime, we have to be very prissy about how we tell computers to do things.

Functional programming is discipline imposed upon variable assignment.

MacBook is at least 1022 more powerful than those early computers that I started using half a century ago

All race conditions, deadlock conditions, and concurrent update problems are due to mutable variables. All the problems we face in applications that require multiple threads, and multiple processors—cannot happen if there are no mutable variables.

Functional programming imposes discipline upon assignment.

I guess you're familiar with Moore's Law? This states that the number of transistors that can be placed on an integrated circuit—which basically means memory size and processing speed—will double every eighteen months, and costs will halve. Moore's Law has held with amazing consistency since 1965, and it still holds.

Sometimes in studying Ramanujan's work, [George Andrews] said at another time, I have wondered how much Ramanujan could have done if he had had MACSYMA or SCRATCHPAD or some other symbolic algebra package.

Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.

People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things that build on each other, like a wall of mini stones.

Computer Science is a science of abstraction -creating the right model for a problem and devising the appropriate mechanizable techniques to solve it.

Computer science … jobs should be way more interesting than even going to Wall Street or being a lawyer--or, I can argue, than anything but perhaps biology, and there it's just a tie.

Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer.

Computer science is the operating system for all innovation.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the science of how to get machines to do the things they do in the movies.

Computer science is to biology what calculus is to physics. It's the natural mathematical technique that best maps the character of the subject.

A lot of the parallel processing software we're currently developing for supercomputers is tantric.

Computer science has as much to do with computers as astronomy has to do with telescopes.

Artificial Intelligence is creating a mind, hopefully as pure a mind as possible, for a computer.