Quotes About Progress

This whole phenomenon of the computer in a library is an amazing thing.

I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.

The computer is important, but not to mathematics.

Computer photography won't be photography as we know it. I think photography will always be chemical.

In the decade ahead I can predict that we will provide over twice the productivity improvement that we provided in the '90s.

The great benefit of computer sequencers is that they remove the issue of skill, and replace it with the issue of judgement

The radio of my youth ... is now a quaint memory replaced by computer hard drives.

In the same way you can never go backward to a slower computer, you can never go backward to a lessened state of connectedness.

The truth is no online database will replace your daily newspaper, no CD-ROM can take the place of a competent teacher and no computer network will change the way government works.

The computers are not replacing mathematicians; they are breeding them.

Clearly, if wed had the kind of computer graphics capability then that we have now, the Star Gate sequence would be much more complex than flat planes of light and color.

Inevitably the machines must win, but there is still a long way to go before a human on his or her best day is unable to defeat the best computer.

Bandwidth grows at least three times faster than computer power.

The computer revolution is a revolution in the way we think and in the way we express what we think.

If more women want to be a part of the computer industry today, they have to do more to put themselves there. Nobody is keeping them out.

You know, one of these things that happened in the '60s and '70s was this confluence of, sort of, a counter-culture with computer culture.

Things have changed so much now. Everything is downloaded onto computers. I'm not a computer-savvy guy, but with downloading the movie industry has changed.

My iPhone has 2 million times the storage of the 1969 Apollo 11 computer. They went to the moon. I throw birds at pig houses

It's amazing to me that we let humans drive cars... It's a bug that cars were invented before computers.

Computer scientists are the historians of computing.

The iPhone is not and never was a phone. It is a pocket-sized computer that obviates the phone. The iPhone is to cell phones what the Mac was to typewriters.

College just didn't even have computers for an under-curriculum when I started college.

Security wins many battles but loses the security war. We are definitely going backwards in computer security.

If a student takes a Stanford computer class and a Princeton business class, it shows they are motivated and have skills. We know it has helped employees get better jobs.