Computing Quotes

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

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.

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

If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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- ???

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

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

I really never wanted to do source control management at all and felt that it was just about the least interesting thing in the computing world .

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.

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.

Fairly cheap home computing was what changed my life.

It has today occurred to me that an amplifier using semiconductors rather than vacuum is in principle possible.[Laboratory notebook, 29 Dec 1939.]

A mind is a simulation that simulates itself.

Watson represents merely a step in the development of smart machines. Its answering prowess, so formidable on a winter afternoon in 2011, will no doubt seem quaint in a surprisingly short time.

In the underworld, reality itself has elastic properties and is capable of being stretched into different definitionsof the truth.