Computing Quotes - Page 5

• Our civilization is experiencing unprecedented changes across many realms, largely due to the rapid advancement of information technology. The ability to code and understand the power of computing is crucial to success in today's hyper-connected world.

  Al Gore

  Technology, Civilization, World

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• It's possible to do computing in the Cloud, PlayStation 4 can do computing in the Cloud. We do something today: Matchmaking is done in the Cloud and it works very well. If we think about things that don't work well... Trying to boost the quality of the graphics, that won't work well in the Cloud.

  Mark Cerny

  Thinking, Clouds, Trying

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• There will be no new architecture for computing for the next 1,000 years.

  Larry Ellison

  Years, Next, Architecture

  "Nasdaq Wipeouts and Mistaken E-Dentity" by Alan T. Saracevic, www.sfgate.com. February 25, 200.

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• We are not even close to finishing the basic dream of what the PC can be.

  Bill Gates

  Dream, Technology, Finishing

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• 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.

  Bob Muglia

  Technology, Data, People

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• 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.

  Fred Wilson

  Technology, Internet, Platforms

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• There is no reason products and services could not be swapped directly by consumers and producers through a system of direct exchange – essentially a massive barter economy. All it requires is some commonly used unit of account and adequate computing power to make sure all transactions could be settled immediately. People would pay each other electronically, without the payment being routed through anything that we would currently recognize as a bank. Central banks in their present form would no longer exist – nor would money.

  Mervyn King

  People, Adequate, Pay

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• Our vision is for pervasive computing.

  James Robison

  Vision

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• When you want to do your homework, fill out your tax return, or see all the choices for a trip you want to take, you need a full-size screen.

  Bill Gates

  Technology, Journey, Reality

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• 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.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Thinking, Discipline, Tiny

  "Lifestreams" by Steve G.Steinberg, www.wired.com. February 01, 1997.

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• I don't think it's a lack of will. I think it's an issue of what people view as constitutional rights under the Fourth Amendment, number one, and what customers and business partners expect around the world from secure computing systems. And it's a difference of view.

  Rod Beckstrom

  Thinking, Rights, Views

  "The Cybersecurity Argument For And Against Device Encryption". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Linda Wertheimer, www.npr.org. December 26, 2015.

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

  Larry Ellison

  Golden, Internet, Turns

  "Larry Ellison, Oracle co-founder". www.cnbc.com. April 29, 2014.

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• In the world of computers and just devices in general, the lifespan, or the shelf life, is relatively short just because technology moves so fast and the costs drop so quickly and the power, whether it's computing power or memory rises very, very quickly.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Memories, Moving, Technology

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• When the PC was launched, people knew it was important.

  Bill Gates

  Technology, People, Important

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• The human brain became large by natural selection (who knows why, but presumably for good cause). Yet surely most "things" now done by our brains, and essential both to our cultures and to our very survival, are epiphenomena of the computing power of this machine, not genetically grounded Darwinian entities created specifically by natural selection for their current function.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Brain, Survival, Essentials

  "An Urchin in the Storm: Essays About Books and Ideas". Book by Stephen Jay Gould. "Cardboard Darwinism", pp. 48 - 49, 1987.

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• Much of my work has come from being lazy. I didn't like writing programs, and so, when I was working on the IBM 701 (an early computer), writing programs for computing missile trajectories, I started work on a programming system to make it easier to write programs.

  John Backus

  Writing, Lazy, Computer

  IBM employee magazine "Think", 1979.

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• No one has a monopoly on knowledge the way that, say, IBM had in the 1960s in computing, or that Bell Labs had through the 1970s in communications. When useful knowledge exists in companies of all sizes and also in universities, non-profits and individual minds, it makes sense to orient your innovation efforts to accessing, building upon and integrating that external knowledge into useful products and services.

  Henry Chesbrough

  Communication, Effort, Innovation

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• The object of geometry in all its measuring and computing, is to ascertain with exactness the plan of the great Geometer, to penetrate the veil of material forms, and disclose the thoughts which lie beneath them? When our researches are successful, and when a generous and heaven-eyed inspiration has elevated us above humanity, and raised us triumphantly into the very presence, as it were, of the divine intellect, how instantly and entirely are human pride and vanity repressed, and, by a single glance at the glories of the infinite mind, are we humbled to the dust.

  Benjamin Peirce

  Lying, Inspiration, Science

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

  Alan Perlis

  Ideas, Responsible, Willing

  "Epigrams on Programming". ACM SIGPLAN Notices 17 (9), pp. 7-13, pu.inf.uni-tuebingen.de. September 1982.

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• Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written and another for which it wasn't.

  Alan Perlis

  Two, Purpose, Program

  "Epigrams on Programming". ACM SIGPLAN Notices 17 (9), pp. 7-13, pu.inf.uni-tuebingen.de. September 1982.

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• The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.

  Bill Gates

  Notebook, Technology, Matter

  Bill Gates (2009). “Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy”, p.36, Hachette UK

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• 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.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Light, Sublime, Awakening

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• Men are noisy, narrow-band devices, but their nervous systems have very many parallel and simultaneously active channels. Relative to men, computing machines are very fast and very accurate, but they are constrained to perform only one or a few elementary operations at a time. Men are flexible, capable of "programming themselves contingently" on the basis of newly received information. Computing machines are single-minded, constrained by their "pre-programming."

  J. C. R. Licklider

  Men, Band, Machines

  J. C. R. Licklider, Robert W. Taylor (1990). “In memoriam, J.C.R. Licklider, 1915-1990”

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• To be able to choose between proprietary software packages is to be able to choose your master. Freedom means not having a master.

  Richard Stallman

  Mean, Able, Masters

  "The Free Software Movement and the Future of Freedom". Richard Stallman's lecture in Zagreb, Croatia, fsfe.org. March 9, 2006.

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• I would like to emphasize strongly my belief that the era of computing chemists, when hundreds if not thousands of chemists will go to the computing machine instead of the laboratory for increasingly many facets of chemical information, is already at hand. There is only one obstacle, namely that someone must pay for the computing time.

  Robert S. Mulliken

  Science, Hands, Pay

  Robert S. Mulliken, Donald A. Ramsay (1975). “Selected Papers of Robert S. Mulliken”, p.42, University of Chicago Press

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