Quotes about Computing

The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers. Votes: 5

Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living. Votes: 5

Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs founded Apple Inc, which set the computing world on its ear with the Macintosh in 1984. Votes: 5

In the practical world of computing, it is rather uncommon that a program, once it performs correctly and satisfactorily, remains unchanged forever. Votes: 5

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. Votes: 5

Computing is kind of a mess. Your computer doesn't know where you are. It doesn't know what you're doing. It doesn't know what you know. Votes: 4

Computing should be taught as a rigorous - but fun - discipline covering topics like programming, database structures, and algorithms. That doesn't have to be boring. Votes: 4

Computing technology started out as number-crunching. Votes: 3

Object-oriented design is the roman numerals of computing. Votes: 3

The computing field is always in need of new cliches. Votes: 3

The standard definition of AI is that which we don't understand. Votes: 3

Cloud is about how you do computing, not where you do computing Votes: 3

There are no projects per se in the Computing Sciences Research Center. Votes: 3

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow. Votes: 3

Computing is a big segment. It's more than just mobile devices or PCs and laptops. Votes: 3

In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word "frustration". Votes: 3

Back in 1995, Bill Gates himself didn't understand that the internet was the direction computing was going. Votes: 3

The interesting thing about cloud computing is that we've redefined cloud computing to include everything that we already do, Votes: 3

Beauty is more important in computing than anywhere else in technology because software is so complicated. Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity. Votes: 3

More computing sins are committed in the name of efficiency (without necessarily achieving it) than for any other single reason - including blind stupidity. Votes: 3

The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don't really even notice it, so it's part of everyday life. Votes: 3

Computing machines perhaps can do the work of a dozen ordinary men, but there is no machine that can do the work of one extraordinary man. Votes: 3

We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. Votes: 3

The interesting thing about cloud computing is that we've redefined cloud computing to include everything that we already do. I can't think of anything that isn't cloud computing with all of these announcements. Votes: 3

Every kid coming out of Harvard, every kid coming out of school now thinks he can be the next Mark Zuckerberg, and with these new technologies like cloud computing, he actually has a shot. Votes: 3

The utility model of computing - computing resources delivered over the network in much the same way that electricity or telephone service reaches our homes and offices today - makes more sense than ever. Votes: 3

I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user. Votes: 3

Computing shows up in many different ways. You have computing that you wear, computing that you carry. What you think of as the traditional PC market has a long tail of usage, particularly in the commercial world, but also in consumer. Votes: 3

Computing has gone from something tiny and specialized to something that affects every walk of life. It doesn't make sense anymore to think of it as just one discipline. I expect to see separate departments of user interface, for example, to start emerging at universities. Votes: 3

The NeXT purchase is too little too late. The Apple of the past was an innovative company that used software and hardware technology together to redefine the way people experienced computing. That Apple is already dead. Very adroit moves might be able to save the brand name. A company with the letters A-P-P-L-E in its name might survive, but it won't be the Apple of yore. Votes: 3

I have to admit it: I'm not a huge fan of the cloud computing concept. Votes: 2

In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word 'frustration'. Votes: 2

In this new world, with smartphones and tablets and cloud computing, things are moving around fast. Votes: 2

Information theory began as a bridge from mathematics to electrical engineering and from there to computing. Votes: 2

I suppose many people will continue moving towards careless computing, because there's a sucker born every minute. Votes: 2

The interesting thing about cloud computing is that we've redefined cloud computing to include everything that we already do. Votes: 2

They don't call it the Internet anymore, they call it cloud computing. I'm no longer resisting the name. Call it what you want. Votes: 2

I wouldn't be surprised if tomorrow was the Final Dawn, the last sunrise before the Earth and Sun are reshaped into computing elements. Votes: 2

While I admire the insights of many of the people in the world of computing, I get this cold feeling that I speak a different language. Votes: 2

Alan Turing gave us a mathematical model of digital computing that has completely withstood the test of time. He gave us a very, very clear description that was truly prophetic. Votes: 2

The world got enamored with smartphones and tablets, but what's interesting is those devices don't do everything that needs to be done. Three-D printing, virtual-reality computing, robotics are all controlled by PCs. Votes: 2

Mobile communications and pervasive computing technologies, together with social contracts that were never possible before, are already beginning to change the way people meet, mate, work, war, buy, sell, govern and create. Votes: 2

The cloud computing model may be a wonderful system when it works, but it's a nightmare when it fails. And the more people who come to depend upon it, the bigger the nightmare. Votes: 2

If someone asks me what cloud computing is, I try not to get bogged down with definitions. I tell them that, simply put, cloud computing is a better way to run your business. Votes: 2

Cloud computing offers individuals access to data and applications from nearly any point of access to the Internet, offers businesses a whole new way to cut costs for technical infrastructure, and offers big computer companies a potentially giant market for hardware and services. Votes: 2

Computer games tend to be boys' games, warlike games with more violence. We have not spent enough time thinking through how to encourage more girls to be involved in computing before coming to college so they can see a possible career in information technology. Votes: 2

Millennials, and the generations that follow, are shaping technology. This generation has grown up with computing in the palm of their hands. They are more socially and globally connected through mobile Internet devices than any prior generation. And they don't question; they just learn. Votes: 2

One reason you should not use web applications to do your computing is that you lose control. It's just as bad as using a proprietary program. Do your own computing on your own computer with your copy of a freedom-respecting program. If you use a proprietary program or somebody else's web server, you're defenceless. Votes: 2

Cloud computing means you are doing your computing on somebody else's computer. Looking ahead a little, I firmly believe cloud - previously called grid computing - will become very widespread. It's much cheaper than buying your own computing infrastructure, or maybe you don't have the power to do what you want on your own computer. Votes: 2

I can see a day soon where you'll create your own college degree by taking the best online courses from the best professors from around the world - some computing from Stanford, some entrepreneurship from Wharton, some ethics from Brandeis, some literature from Edinburgh - paying only the nominal fee for the certificates of completion. Votes: 2

Our vision is for pervasive computing. Votes: 0

The universe is computing its own destiny. Votes: 0

Computer scientists are the historians of computing. Votes: 0

Cultural perspective on gender diversity in computing, Votes: 0

Genuinely ubiquitous computing spreads like warm Vaseline. Votes: 0

Fairly cheap home computing was what changed my life. Votes: 0

In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter. Votes: 0

There will be no new architecture for computing for the next 1,000 years. Votes: 0

Cloud computing is a challenge to security, but one that can be overcome. Votes: 0

There's nothing in computing that can't be broken by another level of indirection. Votes: 0

Using Unix is the computing equivalent of listening only to music by David Cassidy. Votes: 0

Cloud computing is a great euphemism for centralization of computer services under one server. Votes: 0

The spirit of social computing is the concept of leaving value in your wake. Votes: 0

The iPad is the clearest expression of our vision of the future of personal computing. Votes: 0

We think computing ought to be like a telephone or a water tap or a light switch Votes: 0

We think computing ought to be like a telephone or a water tap or a light switch. Votes: 0

One reason you should not use web applications to do your computing is that you lose control. Votes: 0

Every big computing disaster has come from taking too many ideas and putting them in one place. Votes: 0

Hydrodynamics procreated complex analysis, partial differential equations, Lie groups and algebra theory, cohomology theory and scientific computing. Votes: 0

The computing scientist's main challenge is not to get confused by the complexities of his own making. Votes: 0

Only six electronic digital computers would be required to satisfy the computing needs of the entire United States, Votes: 0

The computing world is very good at things that we are not. It is very good at memory. Votes: 0

A typical smart phone has more computing power than Apollo 11 when it landed a man on the moon. Votes: 0

What do you think will be the biggest problem in computing in the 90's? There are only 17,000 three-letter acronyms. Votes: 0

We are not the only avatars of humanity. Once our computing machines achieved self-consciousness, they became part of this design. Votes: 0

The good news is we had this idea of cloud computing. The bad news is we were 10 years too early. Votes: 0

If the Internet turns out not to be the future of computing, we're toast. But if it is, we're golden. Votes: 0

I have discovered that there are two types of command interfaces in the world of computing: good interfaces and user interfaces. Votes: 0

Stephen Wolfram is the creator of Mathematica and is widely regarded as the most important innovator in scientific and technical computing today. Votes: 0

In the practical world of computing, it is rather uncommon that a program, once it performs correctly and satisfactorily, remains unchanged forever." Votes: 0

Each time you toss out a 'singing' greeting card, you are disposing of more computing power than existed in the entire world before 1950. Votes: 0

I would therefore like to posit that computing's central challenge, how not to make a mess of it, has not yet been met. Votes: 0

Future is mobile computing - smartphones and tablets are just elements of it. The industry is on the verge of a whole new paradigm. Votes: 0

Such is modern computing: everything simple is made too complicated because it's easy to fiddle with; everything complicated stays complicated because it's hard to fix. Votes: 0

The Internet is a computing platform built on top of core technology. Applied technology is what gets built on top of that: It's Web services. Votes: 0

To me, thought-controlled computing is as simple and powerful as a paintbrush - one more tool to unlock and enliven the hidden worlds within us. Votes: 0

Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones. Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS. Votes: 0

Technological innovation has dramatically lowered the cost of computing, making it possible for large numbers of consumers to own powerful new technologies at reasonably low prices. Votes: 0

We don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all junction types--in the absence of quantum computing the combinatorics are not in our favor... Votes: 0

Microsoft has laid down the foundations for next-generation computing and is the founder in terms of providing user-friendly software - thereby increasing the number of novice users. Votes: 0

Growing new limbs, copying internal organs like a Xerox machine, exponential increases in computing power, better eyes and ears - I could read stories like this endlessly. Votes: 0

As history has shown, any new computing device capable of running a game will, by hook or by crook, soon have them available. (aka, the "Loguidice Law") Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

What amplifies the transformational power ahead is the confluence of two major technological currents today: the universal access to mobile computing and the pervasive use of social networks. Votes: 0

Creative Cloud is Adobe re-imagining itself amid a world of these three transformations - cloud, multiscreen and social computing - which are all happening at the same time. Votes: 0

Persuading through Simplifying - Using computing technology to reduce complex behavior to simple tasks increases the benefit/cost ratio of the behavior and influences users to perform the behavior. Votes: 0

Some archeologists believe that Stonehenge - the mysterious arrangement of enormous elongated stones in England - is actually a crude effort by the Druids to build a computing device. Votes: 0

Being at NASA and having the access to both computing capability and satellite observation capability is kind of the ideal research situation to try to understand global climate change. Votes: 0

In 2000, when my partner Ben Horowitz was CEO of the first cloud computing company, Loudcloud, the cost of a customer running a basic Internet application was approximately $150,000 a month. Votes: 0

At every juncture, advanced tools have been the key to a new wave of applications, and each wave of applications has been key to driving computing to the next level. Votes: 0

As companies move to web-based computing they get a lot more servers, which are difficult to manage and control. All kinds of problems can arise - security, quality and worms. Votes: 0

I think computing power is ready to do 3D justice. It was great for shooters and racing games in the past, but I didn't think it was right for strategy games. Votes: 0

Long term, the PC and workstation will wither because computing access will be everywhere: in the walls, on wrists, and in 'scrap computers' lying about waiting to be grabbed as needed. Votes: 0

In the next 50 years, the increasing importance of designing spaces for human communication and interaction will lead to expansion in those aspects of computing that are focused on people, rather than machinery. Votes: 0

My father, an entrepreneur but hardly a technologist, was looking to buy a computer to 'automate' our family business. In 1981, he characteristically dove head first into computing and bought an Osborne I. Votes: 0

At Microsoft, we're investing heavily in security because we want customers to be able to trust their computing experiences, so they can realize the full benefits of the interconnected world we live in. Votes: 0

There's more noise that comes with wearable computing, things that let us take pictures every 30 seconds as we walk around living our lives, and a huge number more photos per person will exist. Votes: 0

Productivity is grounded in the PC. Where does the computing power come from? How would you run 'USA Today' without PCs? Run a hospital without PCs? People don't want products, they want solutions. Votes: 0

Cloud computing seems to be following this evolutionary path: A - Internet backbone. B - Information Superhighway. C - The Net. D - The Web. E - The Cloud. F - "Ubiquity" G - ???... Votes: 0

There's been a big evolution since the days of personal computing. People had a concept of one computing device per family or maybe per person. We've clearly evolved to computing devices becoming more personal. Votes: 0

In a sense, there is no such thing as a bargain in computing. Models which are popular sell for the price they are supposed to fetch for the best part of their product cycle. Votes: 0

As we gradually learn to harness the optimal computing capacity of matter, our intelligence will spread through the universe at (or exceeding) the speed of light, eventually leading to a sublime, universe wide awakening. Votes: 0

What's needed now are software technologies that interconnect computing systems, people and data to produce more rapid answers to the questions of science, and to help researchers use computation in the most effective manner. Votes: 0

One of the great things about an open system like Android is it addresses all ends of the spectrum. Getting great low-cost computing devices at scale to the developing world is especially meaningful to me. Votes: 0

To be able to choose between proprietary software packages is to be able to choose your master. Freedom means not having a master. And in the area of computing, freedom means not using proprietary software. Votes: 0

The idea of free software is that users of computing deserve freedom. They deserve in particular to have control over their computing. And proprietary software does not allow users to have control of their computing. Votes: 0