Computer Quotes And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

“It’s not computer literacy that we should be working on, but sort of human-literacy.  Computers have to become human-literate.”
– Nicholas P. Negroponte

“If the code and the comments do not match, possibly both are incorrect.”
– Norm Schryer

“Software is like entropy: It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the Second Law of Thermodynamics; i.e., it always increases.”
– Norman Augustine

“From a programmer’s point of view, the user is a peripheral that types when you issue a read request.”
– P. Williams

“But they are useless.  They can only give you answers.”
– Pablo Picasso

“Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.”
– Pablo Picasso

“Everyone by now presumably knows about the danger of premature optimization.  I think we should be just as worried about premature design — designing too early what a program should do.”
– Paul Graham

“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.”
– Peter Ustinov

“Before software should be reusable, it should be usable.”
– Ralph Johnson 

“The human brain has about 100 billion neurons. With an estimated average of one thousand connections between each neuron and its neighbors, we have about 100 trillion connections, each capable of a simultaneous calculation … (but) only 200 calculations per second…. With 100 trillion connections, each computing at 200 calculations per second, we get 20 million billion calculations per second. This is a conservatively high estimate…. In 1997, $2,000 of neural computer chips using only modest parallel processing could perform around 2 billion calculations per second…. This capacity will double every twelve months. Thus by the year 2020, it will have doubled about twenty-three times, resulting in a speed of about 20 million billion neural connection calculations per second, which is equal to the human brain.”
– Ray Kurzweil

“There is a popular cliché … which says that you cannot get out of computers any more than you put in. Other versions are that computers only do exactly what you tell them to, and that therefore computers are never creative. The cliché is true only in the crashingly trivial sense, the same sense in which Shakespeare never wrote anything except what his first schoolteacher taught him to write–words.”
– Richard Dawkins

“The difference between theory and practice is that in theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.”
– Richard Moore

“There is a computer disease that anybody who works with computers knows about.  It’s a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work.  The trouble with computers is that you ‘play’ with them!”
– Richard P. Feynman

“When debugging, novices insert corrective code; experts remove defective code.”
– Richard Pattis

“In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks.  Now they’re knocking off servers.”
– Richard Power

“Don’t explain computers to laymen.  Simpler to explain sex to a virgin.”
– Robert A. Heinlein

“If you automate a mess, you get an automated mess.”
– Rod Michael

“Commenting your code is like cleaning your bathroom — you never want to do it, but it really does create a more pleasant experience for you and your guests.”
– Ryan Campbell 

“As network administrator I can take down the network with one keystroke.  It’s just like being a doctor but without getting gooky stuff on my paws.”
– Scott Adams

“If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it’s done.”
– Scott Adams

“Something else has happened with computers. What’s happened with society is that we have created these devices, computers, which already can register and process huge amounts of information, which is a significant fraction of the amount of information that human beings themselves, as a species, can process. When I think of all the information being processed there, all the information being communicated back and forth over the Internet, or even just all the information that you and I can communicate back and forth by talking, I start to look at the total amount of information being processed by human beings — and their artifacts — we are at a very interesting point of human history, which is at the stage where our artifacts will soon be processing more information than we physically will be able to process.”
– Seth Lloyd

“The more you know, the more you realize you know nothing.”
– Socrates

“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.”
– Stephen Hawking

“We think that computers are the most remarkable tools that humankind has ever come up with, and we think that people are basically tool users. So if we can just get lots of computers to lots of people, it will make some qualitative difference to the world.”
– Steve Jobs

“It’s OK to figure out murder mysteries, but you shouldn’t need to figure out code.  You should be able to read it.”
– Steve Mcconnell

“When you are stuck in a traffic jam with a Porsche, all you do is burn more gas in idle.  Scalability is about building wider roads, not about building faster cars.”
– Steve Swartz

“Physics is the universe’s operating system.”
– Steven R Garman

“The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.”
– Sydney J. Harris

“A program is never less than 90% complete, and never more than 95% complete.”
– Terry Baker

“A picture is worth a thousand words but it takes 3,000 times the disk space.”
– Unknown

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