64 Quotes About Computing

Some people, when confronted with a problem, think ‘I know, I'll use regular expressions.’ Now they have two problems.

At the laboratory, Turing designed the first relatively complete electronic stored-program digital computer for code breaking in 1945. Darwin deemed it too ambitious, however, and after several years Turing left in disgust. When the laboratory finally built his design in 1950, it was the fastest computer in the world and, astonishingly, had the memory capacity of an early Macintosh built three decades later.

The man liked doing magic tricks. He was an IT type, a techie, their minds work that way. Never the straight path, oh no, not when some circuitous route will do.

The most important thing in the programming language is the name. A language will not succeed without a good name. I have recently invented a very good name and now I am looking for a suitable language.

The real problem is that programmers have spent far too much time worrying about efficiency in the wrong places and at the wrong times; premature optimization is the root of all evil (or at least most of it) in programming.

Google is this era's transformational computing platform and could be about to unseat Microsoft from its throne,

Developing software is way too hard. I think we just haven't been able to keep up with the huge increase in memory size and computing power.

Growth is led by mobile computing with good demand for our mobile processors in all geographies.

Microsoft is moving away from some of these strategic media investments they had made in the '90s so they can focus their energies and resources on the Internet-based computing trends that are occurring right now and could potentially be harmful to their core business.