Best Computer Systems Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I think we're in an age where artists really have an incredible range of materials at their command now. They can use almost anything from household items - Jackson Pollock used house paint - to, you know, advanced computer systems, to good old oil paint and acrylic paint.”

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Author:Bill Viola

“Those are all computational engines that are highly distributed and therefore highly robust, .. We're seeing a very significant evolution in the way we even think about computer systems, let alone specific applications.”

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Author:Vinton Cerf

“When I use a direct manipulation system whether for text editing, drawing pictures, or creating and playing games I do think of myself not as using a computer but as doing the particular task. The computer is, in effect, invisible. The point cannot be overstressed: make the computer system invisible.”

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Author:Donald A. Norman

“In the judgment of design engineers, the ordinary means of communicating with a computer are entirely inadequate. [...] Graphical communication in some form or other is of vital importance in engineering as that subject is now conducted; we must either provide the capability in our computer systems, or take on the impossible task of training up a future race of engineers conditioned to think in a different way.”

“Today, no one would dispute that information technology has become the backbone of commerce. It underpins the operations of individual companies, ties together far-flung supply chains, and, increasingly, links businesses to the customers they serve. Hardly a dollar or a euro changes hands anymore without the aid of computer systems.”

“Now scarcely a week goes by without a news story about the cops swooping down on some adolescent prowler who is as skilled at breaking into computer systems as defense contractors are at breaking into the Federal budget.”

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Author:Russell Baker

“Taxpayers have spent more than $200 billion in the last decade on computer systems that are antiquated, incompatible, and not doing the job.”

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Author:William Cohen

“When I was in prison, a Colombian drug lord, offered me $5 million in cash to manipulate a computer system so that he would be released. I turned him down.”

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Author:Kevin Mitnick

“On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.”

“You have weak artificial intelligence, which is a robot or a computer system that follows a list of protocols and it's like yes/no answers that can be as complex as you want, and then you have strong A.I., which is basically like a human, like something that can think up a thought that's never been thought up or paint a painting or write a poem.”

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Author:Neill Blomkamp

“I would say the soul would be more than the engine. The soul would be like the computer system that coordinates everything, from the smog device to the fuel injection system to the brakes.”

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Author:Dallas Willard

“Think of the soul as the computer system that runs the whole thing. And then the spirit is the executive center. It's the faculty of choice. And then you want that faculty governed by the truth of God and the Spirit of God.”

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Author:Dallas Willard

“Social engineering is using deception, manipulation and influence to convince a human who has access to a computer system to do something, like click on an attachment in an e-mail.”

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Author:Kevin Mitnick

“Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.”

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Author:Andy Rooney

“In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.”

“If you taught me to read and provided for me the same computer system as someone has provided for Stephen Hawking, I, too, would write great books. And yet you don't teach me to read, and you don't give me a computer stick I can push around with my nose to point at the next letter I wish typed. So whose fault is it that I am what I am?”

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Book:The Art of Racing in the Rain

Source: The Art of Racing in the Rain

“Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.”

“Mort drove one of those little hybrid cars that, when not running on gasoline, was fueled by idealism. It was made out of crepe paper and duct tape and boasted a computer system that looked like it could have run the NYSE and NORAD, with enough attention left over to play tic-tac-toe. Or possibly Global Thermonuclear War.”

Source: Ghost Story: A Novel of the Dresden Files

“It's just one thing after another. Cars that won't run. Planes that will never fly again. Computer systems we can barely use, let alone re-create. It's like...time is flowing backward. We're caveman archeologists in the ruins of the future.”

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Author:Dan Wells

“A computer will do what you tell it to do, but that may be much different from what you had in mind.”

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Author:Joseph Weizenbaum

“The best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and I fished out listings of their operating systems.”

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”

“The only truly secure system is one that is powered off, cast in a block of concrete and sealed in a lead-lined room with armed guards.”

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Author:Gene Spafford

“The inside of a computer is as dumb as hell but it goes like mad!”

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Author:Richard P. Feynman

“Computer system analysis is like child-rearing; you can do grievous damage, but you cannot ensure success.”

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Book:Structured analysis and system specification

Source: Structured analysis and system specification

“As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.”

“Don’t damage computer systems you break into (including crashing them); don’t change the information in those systems (except for altering logs to cover your tracks); and share information.”

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Book:Underground: Tales of Hacking, Madness and Obsession on the Electronic Frontier

Source: Underground: Tales of Hacking, Madness and Obsession on the Electronic Frontier

“In engineering, as in other creative arts, we must learn to do analysis to support our efforts in synthesis. One cannot build a beautiful and functional bridge without a knowledge of steel and dirt, and a considerable mathematical technique for using this knowledge to compute the properties of structures. Similarly, one cannot build a beautiful computer system without a deep understanding of how to "previsualize" the process generated by the code one writes.”

“While many hackers have the knowledge, skills, and tools to attack computer systems, they generally lack the motivation to cause violence or severe economic or social harm.”

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Author:Dorothy E. Denning

“Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.”

“Companies spend millions of dollars on firewalls and secure access devices, and it's money wasted because none of these measures address the weakest link in the security chain: the people who use, administer and operate computer systems”

“The main motivations were to try to leverage Google's expertise with large computer systems and to try to give something back to science”

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Author:Susan Wojcicki

“We build our computer (systems) the way we build our cities: over time, without a plan, on top of ruins”

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Author:Ellen Ullman