Computers are like Old Testament gods lots of rules and no mercy.
Shareware tends to combine the worst of commercial software with the worst of free software.
Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else's patent.
When I write software, I know that it will fail, either due to my own mistake, or due to some other cause.
There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.
I was afraid of the internet... because I couldn't type.
Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window.
I've always been at the intersection of computers and whatever they can revolutionize.
They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.
Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers - organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative - if we don't...
As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.
Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020.
After a semester or so, my infatuation with computers burnt out as quickly as it had begun.
Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living.
Turn your diodes this way and pulse...
Software comes from heaven when you have good hardware.
Smartphones can relay patients' data to hospital computers in a continuous stream. Doctors can alter treatment regimens remotely, instead of making patients come in for a visit.
If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
I'm proud of it. Apart from marking the first occasion when I used my talent on behalf of other people without being asked and without caring whether I was rewarded--which was a major breakthrough in...
Computers have virtually replaced tape recorders.