#compute

C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success. ↗

— Dennis M. Ritchie

#science

Sometimes in studying Ramanujan's work, [George Andrews] said at another time, "I have wondered how much Ramanujan could have done if he had had MACSYMA or SCRATCHPAD or some other symbolic algebra package. ↗

— Robert Kanigel

#computer-algebra-system #history #math #ramanujan #life

After all, just one virus on a computer is one too many. ↗

— Glenn Turner

#computer #just #just one #many #too

Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble? ↗

— Alan J. Perlis

#programming #sicp #science

Ask not, what you must do for your computer. Fear instead, what your computer can do to you. ↗

— with apologies to John F. Kennedy

#disaster #humor #humor

We are beginning to see intimations of this in the implantation of computer devices into the human body. ↗

— Ray Kurzweil

#body #computer #devices #human #human body

Family life is not a computer program that runs on its own; it needs continual input from everyone. ↗

— Neil Kurshan

#computer program #continual #everyone #family #family life

Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020. ↗

— Ray Kurzweil

#about #achieve #brain #capacity #human

Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us. ↗

— Jean Rostand

#think #us #why

I just recently did a film with Disney, and they put the drawings straight on the computer. And it's all painted on the computer now and not by hand anymore. ↗

— Gerald Scarfe

#computer #did #disney #drawings #film