Computing Quotes

Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs founded Apple Inc, which set the computing world on its ear with the Macintosh in 1984.

Hamming's Motto: The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers.

Computing used to be an expert-driven system;

it [became] a personal system that we all owned as part of our daily lives. That shift from mainframe to personal computing is what we have to do for health care.

To me, thought-controlled computing is as simple and powerful as a paintbrush - one more tool to unlock and enliven the hidden worlds within us.

Every kid coming out of Harvard, every kid coming out of school now thinks he can be the next Mark Zuckerberg, and with these new technologies like cloud computing, he actually has a shot.

In 2000, when my partner Ben Horowitz was CEO of the first cloud computing company, Loudcloud, the cost of a customer running a basic Internet application was approximately $150,000 a month.

In 20 or 30 years, you'll be able to hold in your hand as much computing knowledge as exists now in the whole city, or even the whole world.

Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living.

The utility model of computing - computing resources delivered over the network in much the same way that electricity or telephone service reaches our homes and offices today - makes more sense than ever.

The computing field is always in need of new cliches.

In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word "frustration".

While I admire the insights of many of the people in the world of computing, I get this cold feeling that I speak a different language.

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 are no projects per se in the Computing Sciences Research Center.

The great advance of personal computers was not the computing power per se but the fact that it brought it right to your face, that you had control over it, that were confronted with it and could steer it.

Cloud is about how you do computing, not where you do computing.

They don't call it the Internet anymore, they call it cloud computing.

I'm no longer resisting the name. Call it what you want.

In the practical world of computing, it is rather uncommon that a program, once it performs correctly and satisfactorily, remains unchanged forever.