Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living.
Considering what human beings do and have done to human beings (and to other living things as well) ... I can never imagine what the devil people think computers can add to the horrors.
You don't have to be a genius or a visionary or even a college graduate to be successful. You just need a framework and a dream.
Nanotechnology will let us build computers that are incredibly powerful. We'll have more power in the volume of a sugar cube than exists in the entire world today.
If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.
We used to have lots of questions to which there were no answers. Now, with the computer, there are lots of answers to which we haven't thought up questions.
With the fight scenes, they would take a video camera and shoot alongside the camera so we would piece it together on the computer and had an extremely rough cut of what we were doing.
I am not out to destroy Microsoft, that would be a completely unintended side effect.
The problem of viruses is temporary and will be solved in two years.
Unless mankind redesigns itself by changing our DNA through altering our genetic makeup, computer-genera ted robots will take over our world.
Chess is one thing, but if we get to the point computers can best humans in the arts-those splendid, millennia-old expressions of the heart and soul of human existence-then why bother existing? to produce human art a computer would have to find, feel, absorb reality to the point it is overcome, to the point it sobs for release. A computer perhaps could replicate every possibility but could never transfer the energy art requires to exist in the first place.
All programmers are optimists. Perhaps this modern sorcery especially attracts those who believe in happy endings and fairy godmothers. Perhaps the hundreds of nitty frustrations drive away all but those who habitually focus on the end goal. Perhaps it is merely that computers are young, programmers are younger, and the young are always optimists.
I think that an artist is a bit like a computer. He receives information from the world around him and from his past and from his own experiences. And it all goes into the brain.
My tax return in the United States has to be kept on a special computer because their normal computers can't deal with the numbers. So I am constantly getting these notices telling me I haven't paid something when really it is just on the wrong computer.
I visited a scientist who had a helmet with magnetic fields controlled by computer sequences that could profoundly affect your mood and your perceptions.
The question of whether computers can think is like the question of whether submarines can swim.
One of my most productive days was throwing away 1,000 lines of code.
Here's my library, where I don't do a lot of reading but mostly play Angry Birds on the computer.
The computer would do anything you programmed it to do.
Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.
To err is human - and to blame it on a computer is even more so.
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