Computer Quotes - Page 2

When cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl.

I have not proved that the universe is, in fact, a digital computer and that it's capable of performing universal computation, but it's plausible that it is.

Amateurs hack systems, professionals hack people.

Science is supposedly the method by which we stand on the shoulders of those who came before us. In computer science, we all are standing on each others' feet.

Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter.

Passwords are like underwear: you don’t let people see it, you should change it very often, and you shouldn’t share it with strangers.

Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking.

Who do you suppose invented computers? Speaking in terms relevant to you, in terms of earth history, let alone other worldly history, the computer, of course, came from Atlantis.

This will surprise some of your readers, but my primary interest is not with computer security. I am primarily interested in writing software that works as intended.

I am such a gearhead. In my recording studio, I personally engineer and edit everything on computers.

In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.

Computers can do better than ever what needn't be done at all. Making sense is still a human monopoly.

I wouldn't know how to find eBay on the computer if my life depended on it.

The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is responsible. Universes of virtually unlimited complexity can be created in the form of computer programs.

I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I've ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn't want to do whatever he did.

The function of good software is to make the complex appear to be simple.

Hardware: where the people in your company's software section will tell you the problem is. Software: where the people in your company's hardware section will tell you the problem is.

To iterate is human, to recurse divine.

Nowadays we can do computer experiments using Mathematica, and even solve a system of 42 equations. This offers another route to knowledge, rather than mere ideas.

C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success.

Most papers in computer science describe how their author learned what someone else already knew.

You can either have software quality or you can have pointer arithmetic, but you cannot have both at the same time.

I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.

Always trust computer games.

Memory has always been social. Now we're using search engines and computers to augment our memories, too.