“There is only one real computer - the universe - whose hardware is made up of non-spatial states of consciousness and software is made up of superhuman as well as non-superhuman thoughts.” WellsMadeRealStatesRealityUniverseConsciousnessComputerSoftwareHardwareSuperhumanStates Of ConsciousnessHuman ThoughtSpatial Author:Kedar Joshi
“The difference between the best worker on computer hardware and the average may be 2 to 1, if you're lucky. With automobiles, maybe 2 to 1. But in software, it's at least 25 to 1. The difference between the average programmer and a great one is at least that. The secret of my success is that we have gone to exceptional lengths to hire the best people in the world. And when you're in a field where the dynamic range is 25 to 1, boy, does it pay off.” PeopleIfsWorldMayDoeDifferencesPaySecretBoysGoneFieldsLuckyComputerWorkersAverageRangeLengthSoftwareExceptionalAutomobileProgrammersGreat OnesHardwareSecret Of My Success Author:Steve Jobs
“When I was at Tek, I was frustrated that computer hardware was being improved faster than computer software. I wanted to invent some software that was completely different, that would grow and change as it was used. That's how wiki came about.” DifferentWantedUsedGrowsComputerFasterSoftwareFrustratedHardwareComputer Software Author:Ward Cunningham
“Cloud computing offers individuals access to data and applications from nearly any point of access to the Internet, offers businesses a whole new way to cut costs for technical infrastructure, and offers big computer companies a potentially giant market for hardware and services.” WayWholeBigsIndividualCompanyCuttingInternetCostOffersComputerCloudsAccessDataGiantsApplicationNew WaysInfrastructureComputingHardwareCloud Computing Author:Jamais Cascio
“The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways. There's a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are), 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.” WayShouldTryingIdeasDifferentRealProcessDesignObjectsComputerModelsUnderstoodDecidedApplesDescriptionNetworkingBeefHardwareOperating SystemsPersonal ComputersCacheMainframe Author:Alan Kay
“Last time I was recording, I was trying to loop on the computer, but it's really difficult because it's really different from looping on hardware.” TryingDifferentLastsDifficultComputerLast TimeLoopsHardware Author:Julia Kent
“The computer does things that can't be done with hardware, like freezing sounds.” DoeDoneSoundComputerHardwareFreezing Author:Keith Fullerton Whitman
“I use a laptop more as a tool, as sort of the central artery. Everything goes through the digital audio card of my computer, but if I had my druthers I'd do everything in dedicated hardware.” IfsUseComputerToolsCardsDigitalDedicatedLaptopsHardwareAudioArteries Author:Keith Fullerton Whitman
“Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.” DoneTodayForceMillionsTechnologyIntegrityComputerSlaveCodeProgrammingSoftwareBricksFunny InspirationalBrutesProgrammersPyramidsComputer ProgrammingProgramming LanguagesEgyptianComputer LanguageHardwareSoftware DesignBrute ForceComputer ProgrammersComputer SoftwareCode QualityEgyptian Pyramids Author:Alan Kay
“The whole hardware industry has experienced the phenomenon in which every time computers get cheaper, they appeal to a new set of users; every time they get more powerful, old customers upgrade.” WholePowerfulIndustryComputerCustomersAppealsPhenomenonUsersCheaperHardware Author:Nathan Myhrvold
“Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.” GivingFunnySpiritualityAnswersTechnologyComputerWittyProductivityUselessProgrammingComputer ProgrammingComputer ScienceInformation TechnologyScience And TechnologyTime To ThinkHardwareHuman ThoughtQuestions And AnswersUselessnessComputer TechnologyScience TechnologyComputer SoftwareFunny ComputerFunny ScienceOriginal ArtUseless Stuff Author:Pablo Picasso
“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.” NeedsDoneWorkTechnologyEasierComputerWittyProgrammingProgrammersInformation TechnologyHardwareComputer ProgrammersComputer TechnologyComputer SoftwareFunny ComputerComputer SystemsComputer Hacking Author:Andy Rooney