Computing Quotes

“On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.”

“The whole of the developments and operations of analysis are now capable of being executed by machinery.”

“As soon as an Analytical Engine exists, it will necessarily guide the future course of the science.”

“The PC is not the center of the digital world anymore. The cloud is.”

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

“From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.”

“Mobile is not a trend, it is the future of computing.”

“The computer is a medium, not a tool.”

“The magic of myth and legend has come true in our time. One types the correct incantation on a keyboard, and a display screen comes to life, showing things that never were nor could be.”

“Computing is not about computers anymore. It is about living.”

“The network is the computer.”

“The computer has been a boon to mathematics, but it has also been a source of anxiety.”

“Any nitwit can understand computers, and many do.”

“A quantum computer is a computer that obeys the laws of quantum mechanics.”

“The next generation of computing is about creating experiences that are more natural, intuitive, and personal.”

“You can and should understand computers NOW.”

“The eleventh commandment was 'Thou Shalt Compute' or 'Thou Shalt Not Compute' - I forget which.”

“In the beginning was the command line.”

“I'm one of those people who is personally convinced that the molecule is the answer, if you can only find the right molecule.”

“Sometimes I think the only universal in the computing field is the fetch-execute cycle.”