The standard definition of AI is that which we don't understand.
One reason you should not use web applications to do your computing is that you lose control.
I have discovered that there are two types of command interfaces in the world of computing: good interfaces and user interfaces.
I really never wanted to do source control management at all and felt that it was just about the least interesting thing in the computing world.
We couldn't build quantum computers unless the universe were quantum and computing. We can build such machines because the universe is storing and processing information in the quantum realm. When we build quantum computers, we're hijacking that underlying computation in order to make it do things we want: little andornot calculations. We're hacking into the universe.
[ Computing ] is just a fabulous place for that, because it's a place where you don't have to be a Ph. D. or anything else. It's a place where you can still be an artisan. People are willing to pay you if you're any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs founded Apple Inc, which set the computing world on its ear with the Macintosh in 1984.
In the practical world of computing, it is rather uncommon that a program, once it performs correctly and satisfactorily, remains unchanged forever.
Cloud is about how you do computing, not where you do computing
The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers.
If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
Computing is kind of a mess. Your computer doesn't know where you are. It doesn't know what you're doing. It doesn't know what you know.
Every big computing disaster has come from taking too many ideas and putting them in one place.
Our vision is for pervasive computing.
The interesting thing about cloud computing is that we've redefined cloud computing to include everything that we already do. I can't think of anything that isn't cloud computing with all of these announcements.
The Internet is a computing platform built on top of core technology. Applied technology is what gets built on top of that: It's Web services.
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.
Back in 1995, Bill Gates himself didn't understand that the internet was the direction computing was going.
Some archeologists believe that Stonehenge - the mysterious arrangement of enormous elongated stones in England - is actually a crude effort by the Druids to build a computing device.
Fairly cheap home computing was what changed my life.
