Computing Quotes

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Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living.

The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.

The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers.

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

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.

Only six electronic digital computers would be required to satisfy the computing needs of the entire United States.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Object-oriented design is the roman numerals of computing.

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.

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.

Cloud is about how you do computing, not where you do computing

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

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

Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches: Banality soothes our nerves.

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

Genuinely ubiquitous computing spreads like warm Vaseline.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Computer scientists are the historians of computing.

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

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

Computing lets people express their creativity and unlock solutions, and code is computing's universal language. All young people, including girls, deserve to be fluent in the language of the future.

The universe is computing its own destiny.

Our vision is for pervasive computing.

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

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

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

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