computers Quotes

There were no PCs when I started programming on computers.

When the first computers started to come in, we tried to digitalize the seismological equipment.

There has never been an unexpectedly short debugging period in the history of computers.

I actually use a computer a lot. I have three computers that I use on a regular basis – one is on my desk top in my Washington office, another is at home, and I have my laptop that I use when I’m travelling.

There’s my education in computers, right there this is the whole thing, everything I took out of a book.

The big question society will have to answer is whether it wants computers thinking like humans.

Today, computers help us making the music. It’s really a tool.

Over and over again, financial experts and wonkish talking heads endeavor to explain these mysterious, ‘toxic’ financial instruments to us lay folk. Over and over, they ignobly fail, because we all know that no one understands credit default obligations and derivatives, except perhaps Mr. Buffett and the computers who created them.

Well, I had a lot of help from my father with the soldering and so on, and he was very good at math and was fascinated with computers, and so I was fortunate enough to have a bunch of exposure going all the way back to high school – this was in the 1960s.

So the thing I realized rather gradually – I must say starting about 20 years ago now that we know about computers and things – there’s a possibility of a more general basis for rules to describe nature.