Computing Quotes

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

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

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

“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 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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“My main purpose in life is to make a big fast computer.”

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

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

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

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

“You can and should understand computers NOW.”

“The idea of a 'file' is a holdover from the paper world.”

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