Computer Quotes

I don’t know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.

And when they decided to beef up their OSs, they went to (different) very old bad mainframe models of OS design to try to adapt to personal computers.

I know when I grew up, it was, if it was daylight outside, get outside. Well, now, with the technological age of computers and everything, everyone’s inside virtually going everywhere they want to go.

FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed – it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.

Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable.

I don’t even know which end of a computer one is supposed to gaze into. I’ve never used a computer.

In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.

The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.

There are roughly three New Yorks. There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born here, who takes the city for granted and accepts its size and its turbulence as natural and inevitable. Second, there is the New York of the commuter.

I go to live in Maine for the summer. Without computer, and without the telephone service we are mercifully without the faxes and e-mails.