The idea behind digital computers may be explained by saying that these machines are intended to carry out any operations which could be done by a human computer.

Sometimes it is the people no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.

One day ladies will take their computers for walks in the park and tell each other, "My little computer said such a funny thing this morning".

Mathematical reasoning may be regarded.

We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.

A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.

Programming is a skill best acquired by practice and example rather than from books.

If a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent.

A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine.

Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.

Codes are a puzzle. A game, just like any other game.

Until Systers came into existence, the notion of a global community of women in computer science did not exist.

Conceit is thinking you're great; egotism is knowing it.

I'm a Valley Girl. You can't get me out of the Valley, I'm still here.

Never lend your car keys to someone you gave birth to.

I'm never sloppy, and I never wear jeans. I don't work one look in particular, but it's usually retro - I'm a flea-market freak. And detailed - I'm always very done, even at the gym.

Denial is a save now, pay later scheme.

Say, oh well, the Republicans don't like this therefor I shouldn't do it. What kind of a government would that be. We're not a parliamentary system.

Economic life, as always, is a matrix in which result becomes cause and cause becomes result.

Enthusiasm is contagious, and the person who has it, under control, is generally welcome in any group of people.

I did not come to Washington to be loved, and I have not been disappointed.