Quotes about computers
44 quotes from 31 people
- EDEdsger W. Dijkstra1930–2002How do we tell truths that might hurt? (1975)
- EDEdsger W. Dijkstra1930–2002How do we tell truths that might hurt? (1975)
Roger Ebert1942–2013“Critical Eye” column, Yahoo! Internet Life (September 1998), p. 66
Umberto Eco1932–2016Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language (1984), Ch. 3: “Metaphor”, 3.12 Conclusions
Neil Gaimanborn 1960Neil Gaiman’s Twitter stream, Tweet ID # 1178514410, (5 February 2009)The NET is a waste of time, and that’s exactly what’s right about it.
William Gibsonborn 1948Name of an article he wrote for New York Times Magazine (14 July 1996)During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.
Al Goreborn 1948Response when asked to cite accomplishments that separate him from another Democratic presidential hopeful, former Sen. Bill Bradley of New Jersey, during an interview with Wolf Blitzer CNN (9 March 1999)From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
Grace Hopper1906–1992On the removal of a 2-inch-long moth from the Harvard Mark II experimental computer at Harvard in 1947, as quoted in Time 16 April 1984Everyone is a programmer now. You just have to say something to the computer.
Jensen Huangborn 1963“Nvidia chief Jensen Huang says AI is creating a ‘new computing era’” in Financial Post (30 May 2023)
Steve Jobs1955–2011Interview in Macworld magazine (February 2004)Random numbers should not be generated with a method chosen at random.
Donald Knuthborn 1938The Art of Computer Programming (1968–2011), Vol. II, Seminumerical AlgorithmsI define UNIX as 30 definitions of regular expressions living under one roof.
Donald Knuthborn 1938Digital Typography, ch. 33, p. 649 (1999)Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.
Donald Knuthborn 1938Closing line of a memo, “Notes on the van Emde Boas construction of priority deques: An instructive use of recursion” (1977)- Donald Knuthborn 1938Interview, Computer Literacy Bookshops (1993)
