A computation is a process that obeys finitely describable rules. — Rudy Rucker
Computations are everywhere, once you begin to look at things in a certain way. — Rudy Rucker
All physical systems can be thought of as registering and processing information, and how one wishes to define computation will determine your view of what computation consists of. — Seth Lloyd
The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers. — Richard Hamming
If we suppose that many natural phenomena are in effect computations, the study of computer science can tell us about the kinds of natural phenomena that can occur. — Rudy Rucker
Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living. — Nicholas Negroponte
Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs. — Seth Lloyd
Quantum computation is... a distinctively new way of harnessing nature... It will be the first technology that allows useful tasks to be performed in collaboration between parallel universes. — David Deutsch
One of the things that I've been doing recently in my scientific research is to ask this question: Is the universe actually capable of performing things like digital computations? — Seth Lloyd
Computer : a million morons working at the speed of light. — David Ferrier
The desire to economize time and mental effort in arithmetical computations, and to eliminate human liability to error is probably as old as the science of arithmetic itself. — Howard Aiken
Interactive computers and software will, I think, provide a less costly method of doing some kinds of inquiry, in knowledge acquisition and even reasoning and interaction. — Roy Romer
Computers are good at following instructions, but not at reading your mind. — Donald Knuth
What the gears cannot do the computer might. The computer is the Proteus of machines. Its essence is its universality, its power to simulate — Seymour Papert
Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking. — Milton Glaser
Short Computation Quotes
The best computer is a man, and it’s the only one that can be mass-produced by unskilled labor. — Wernher Von Braun
Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them. — John Von Neumann
A computer is like air conditioning - it becomes useless when you open Windows — Linus Torvalds
Learning is never done without errors and defeat. — Vladimir Lenin
A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing. — Emo Philips
Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, ‘It can’t be done.’ — Eleanor Roosevelt
Don't try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead. — Jackie Chan
The only way to learn a new programming language is by writing programs in it. — Dennis Ritchie
Java is C++ without the guns, clubs and knives. — James Gosling
My computer beat me at checkers, but I sure beat it at kickboxing. — Emo Philips
Computation Image Quotes
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. — Pablo Picasso
To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer. — Paul R. Ehrlich
Quantum Computing Quotes
By 2100, our destiny is to become like the gods we once worshipped and feared. But our tools will not be magic wands and potions but the science of computers, nanotechnology, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, and most of all, the quantum theory. — Michio Kaku
The history of the universe is, in effect, a huge and ongoing quantum computation. The universe is a quantum computer. — Seth Lloyd
When you zap things with light to build quantum computers, you're hacking existing systems. You're hijacking the computation that's already happening in the universe, just like a hacker takes over someone else's computer. — Seth Lloyd
The most important application of quantum computing in the future is likely to be a computer simulation of quantum systems, because that's an application where we know for sure that quantum systems in general cannot be efficiently simulated on a classical computer. — David Deutsch
To me quantum computation is a new and deeper and better way to understand the laws of physics, and hence understanding physical reality as a whole. — David Deutsch
DNA is a quantum computer that localizes a non local omnipresent consciousness or spirit into space time energy information and matter. — Deepak Chopra
Yes, I am a quantum mechanic! Those darn quantum computers break all the time. — Seth Lloyd
It's actually kind of weird that we can comprehend the law of gravity, or that we can understand quantum mechanics, enough at least to make computers. — Edward Boyden
Trying to get a read on Apple Computer is a lot like learning about quantum physics; you can never know Apple's position on a technology, and its direction, simultaneously. — Mark Pesce
If quantum communication and quantum computation are to flourish, a new information theory will have to be developed. — Hans Christian von Baeyer
What Is Computation Quotes
Unless in communicating with it one says exactly what one means, trouble is bound to result. — Alan Turing
What amplifies the transformational power ahead is the confluence of two major technological currents today: the universal access to mobile computing and the pervasive use of social networks. — Michael Saylor
The novice-friendly software is more like a misbehaving dog: it shits on the floor, it destroys things, and stinks - the novice-friendly software embodies the opposite of what computer people have dreamed of for decades: artificial stupidity. It's more human. — Erik Naggum
Computer programming is an art, because it applies accumulated knowledge to the world, because it requires skill and ingenuity, and especially because it produces objects of beauty. A programmer who subconsciously views himself as an artist will enjoy what he does and will do it better. — Donald Knuth
The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do. — Ted Nelson
The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows. — Frank Zappa
People who are more than casually interested in computers should have at least some idea of what the underlying hardware is like. Otherwise the programs they write will be pretty weird. — Donald Knuth
Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do. — Donald Knuth
The most used program in computers and education is PowerPoint. What are you learning about the nature of the medium by knowing how do to a great PowerPoint presentation? Nothing. It certainly doesnt teach you how to think critically about living in a culture of simulation. — Sherry Turkle
The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late. — Seymour Cray
Computer Programming Quotes
Most of the good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program. — Linus Torvalds
When I was nine, ten, I was super young, but I installed a program on my computer so I could start producing music. — Martin Garrix
If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in. — Edsger Dijkstra
C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off. — Bjarne Stroustrup
Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it. — Brian Kernighan
The most amazing achievement of the computer software industry is its continuing cancellation of the steady and staggering gains made by the computer hardware industry. — Henry Petroski
It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. — Albert Einstein
The question of whether computers can think is like the question of whether submarines can swim. — Edsger Dijkstra
Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand. — Martin Fowler
Computer Technology Quotes
From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it. — Grace Hopper
The computer is the most extraordinary of man's technological clothing; it's an extension of our central nervous system. Beside it, the wheel is a mere hula-hoop. — Marshall McLuhan
There can be infinite uses of the computer and of new age technology, but if teachers themselves are not able to bring it into the classroom and make it work, then it fails. — Nancy Kassebaum
Automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency. — Bill Gates
We're in an inflection point where it's cheaper to learn to read on a tablet computer than it is to learn to read on paper. — Michael Saylor
Atlantis was a highly evolved civilization where the sciences and arts were far more advanced than one might guess. Atlantis was technologically advanced in genetic engineering, computer science, inter-dimensional physics, and artistically developed with electronic music and crystal art forms. — Frederick Lenz
Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris. — Larry Wall
We know that with enough computer power and intelligence, the most complex of all encryptions can be decoded. — Mo Gawdat
Science is supposedly the method by which we stand on the shoulders of those who came before us. In computer science, we all are standing on each others' feet. — Gerald J. Popek
I'm an enemy of what I call 'computer theology.' There's a class conflict out there. There's a techno-elite that lives in a different world. — Walt Mossberg
Computer Science Quotes
The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers. — Lewis Thomas
It's hardware that makes a machine fast. It's software that makes a fast machine slow. — Craig Reucassel
Cryptocurrency is the first practical solution to a longstanding problem in computer science called the Byzantine Generals Problem. — Nick Szabo
I learned that despite having years and years of experience in math and computer science and so on, I didn't really know how to code until I formed a company. — Balaji Srinivasan
Code never lies, comments sometimes do. — Ron Jeffries
I'm not a great programmer; I'm just a good programmer with great habits. — Kent Beck
Coding is today's language of creativity. All our children deserve a chance to become creators instead consumers of computer science. — Maria Klawe
Random numbers should not be generated with a method chosen at random — Donald Knuth
Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter. — Eric S. Raymond
The old Atlantean sciences from the tribe of enlightenment, of which there are only a few remnants and chards left in this world, were medicine, law, computers, and the performing arts. — Frederick Lenz
Computer Language Quotes
That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted. — George Boole
When debugging, novices insert corrective code; experts remove defective code. — Richard E. Pattis
Language as the technology of human extension, whose powers of division and separation we know so well, may have been the "Tower of Babel" by which men sought to scale the highest heavens. Today computers hold out the promise of a means of instant tr — Marshall McLuhan
I think it would be cool if you were writing a ransom note on your computer, if the paper clip popped up and said, 'Looks like you're writing a ransom note. Need help? You should use more forceful language, you'll get more money.' — Demetri Martin
Computer scientists have so far worked on developing powerful programming languages that make it possible to solve the technical problems of computation. Little effort has gone toward devising the languages of interaction. — Donald A. Norman
C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success. — Dennis Ritchie
Good code is its own best documentation. As you're about to add a comment, ask yourself, "How can I improve the code so that this comment isn't needed?" Improve the code and then document it to make it even clearer. — Steve McConnell
If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution. — Robert Sewell
Opposites are not contradictory but complementary. — Niels Bohr
The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance. — Robert Coveyou
Computer Software Quotes
Diaspora starts about a thousand years from now. Most of human civilisation has moved inside computers; essentially, a major branch of our descendants consists of conscious software. — Greg Egan
Software suppliers are trying to make their software packages more 'user-friendly'... Their best approach so far has been to take all the old brochures and stamp the words 'user-friendly' on the cover. — Bill Gates
If the genome were a computer, the epigenome would be the software. It instructs the newly divided cells on what type of cells they should be and what they should remain, sometimes for decades, as in the case of individual brain neurons and certain immune cells. — David Sinclair
This will surprise some of your readers, but my primary interest is not with computer security. I am primarily interested in writing software that works as intended. — Wietse Venema
The function of good software is to make the complex appear to be simple. — Grady Booch
Considering the current sad state of our computer programs, software development is clearly still a black art, and cannot yet be called an engineering discipline. — William J. Clinton
Hardware: where the people in your company's software section will tell you the problem is. Software: where the people in your company's hardware section will tell you the problem is. — Dave Barry
The cheapest, fastest, and most reliable components are those that aren't there. — Gordon Bell
You can either have software quality or you can have pointer arithmetic, but you cannot have both at the same time. — Bertrand Meyer
Computer Systems Quotes
Companies spend millions of dollars on firewalls and secure access devices, and it's money wasted because none of these measures address the weakest link in the security chain: the people who use, administer and operate computer systems — Kevin Mitnick
Earth as a dynamical system is a really bad computer. A lot of information processing is concentrated in a few tiny compute nodes brains, chips with terrible interconnects, even as bad as use of physical translation and air pressure waves. And powered primitively by combustion. — Andrej Karpathy
A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable. — Leslie Lamport
The only truly secure system is one that is powered off, cast in a block of concrete and sealed in a lead-lined room with armed guards. — Gene Spafford
If one ox could not do the job they did not try to grow a bigger ox, but used two oxen. When we need greater computer power, the answer is not to get a bigger computer, but . . .to build systems of computers and operate them in parallel. — Grace Hopper
A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding. — William Gibson
While many hackers have the knowledge, skills, and tools to attack computer systems, they generally lack the motivation to cause violence or severe economic or social harm. — Dorothy Denning
Amateurs hack systems, professionals hack people. — Bruce Schneier
While many hackers have the knowledge, skills, and tools to attack computer systems, they generally lack the motivation to cause violence or severe economic or social harm. — Dorothy E. Denning
Computer scientists call validation: whereas verification asks 'Did I build the system right?', validation asks 'Did I build the right system?' — Max Tegmark
Personal Computers Quotes
This is a very exciting time in the world of information. It`s not just that the personal computer has come along as a great tool. The whole pace of business is moving faster. Globalization is forcing companies to do things in new ways. — Bill Gates
We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020. — Ray Kurzweil
I don’t think a regular person appreciates how insane it is that computers work. I propose we stare at each other mind-blown for about 1 hour per day, in small groups in circles around a chip on a pedestal, appreciating that we can coerce physics to process information like that. — Andrej Karpathy
I am such a gearhead. In my recording studio, I personally engineer and edit everything on computers. — Sayings
There's an old story about the person who wished his computer were as easy to use as his telephone. That wish has come true, since I no longer know how to use my telephone. — Bjarne Stroustrup
Looking at virtual reality through computer screens, video game screens, and above all television screens is a denial of personality development. It's a denial of socialization, of expansion of vocabulary, of interaction with real human beings. — Ralph Nader
The guy who knows about computers is the last person you want to have creating documentation for people who don't understand computers. — Adam Osborne
There isn't a ruler, a yard stick or a measuring tape in the entire world long enough to compute the strength and capabilities inside you. — Paul J. Meyer
I met Woz when I was 13, at a friend's garage. He was about 18. He was, like, the first person I met who knew more electronics than I did at that point. We became good friends, because we shared an interest in computers and we had a sense of humor. We pulled all kinds of pranks together. — Steve Jobs
Calculating Quotes
I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people. — Isaac Newton
Don't search for heaven and hell in the future. Both are now present. Whenever we manage to love without expectations, calculations, negotiations, we are indeed in heaven. Whenever we fight, hate, we are in hell. — Shams Tabrizi
I love you because I love you, because it would be impossible not to love you. I love you without question, without calculation, without reason good or bad, faithfully, with all my heart and soul, and every faculty. — Juliette Drouet
When your world falls apart and you're left with just yourself, you're forced to discover who you are without all the beliefs, expectations, views, & self-image provided by some teacher or system. The calculating mind gives way to the intuitive mind, Knowing without Thinking. — Gabrielle Roth
Do not forget that true love sets no conditions; it does not calculate or complain, but simply loves. — Pope John Paul II
You only get one sunrise and one sunset a day, and you only get so many days on the planet. A good photographer does the math and doesn't waste either. — Galen Rowell
The final mystery is oneself. When one has weighed the sun in the balance, and measured the steps of the moon, and mapped out the seven heavens star by star, there still remains oneself. Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul? — Oscar Wilde
Costs do not exist to be calculated. Costs exist to be reduced. — Taiichi Ohno
Once you experience being loved when you are unworthy, being forgiven when you did something wrong, that moves you into non-dual thinking. You move from what I call meritocracy, quid pro quo thinking, to the huge ocean of grace, where you stop counting or calculating. — Richard Rohr
The whole plan of extermination was nothing less than a cold blooded, calculated political measure, having for its object the annihilation of a superior element in the population, which might prove troublesome, and to this must be added the motive of greed. — Fridtjof Nansen
A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human. — Alan Turing
One day ladies will take their computers for walks in the park and tell each other, "My little computer said such a funny thing this morning". — Alan Turing
No amount of outer technology, no amount of computers and biotechnology and nanotechnology is going to stop the continuation of warfare and racism and environmental destruction. What's called for on the Earth at this time is really a change of heart ... the question is really not the future of humanity, but the presence of eternity. — Jack Kornfield
Now is the time to know that all that you do is sacred... Now is the time for you to deeply compute the impossibility that there is anything but grace. — Hafez
Many of our own people here in this country do not ask about computers, telephones and television sets. They ask - when will we get a road to our village. — Thabo Mbeki
All we can do when we think of kids today is think of more hours of school, earlier age at the computer, and curfews. Who would want to grow up in that world? — James Hillman
Even the best designers produce successful products only if their designs solve the right problems. A wonderful interface to the wrong features will fail. — Jakob Nielsen
In the new computer age, the proliferation of typefaces and type manipulations represents a new level of visual pollution threatening our culture. Out of thousands of typefaces, all we need are a few basic ones, and trash the rest. — Massimo Vignelli
Let's stick to the practical and the concrete: Would you like it if people lived in a virtual world? If machines were smarter than people? If, in the future, people, animals and plants were products of technology? If you don't like these ideas, then for you the computer and biological sciences clearly are dangerous. — Theodore Kaczynski
Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will help the inner migration, the opting out of reality. Reality is no longer going to be the stuff out there, but the stuff inside your head. It's going to be commercial and nasty at the same time. — J. G. Ballard
The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway. — Bernard Avishai
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