Code is not like other how-computers-work books. It doesn't have big color illustrations of disk drives with arrows showing how the data sweeps into the computer. Code has no drawings of trains carrying a cargo of zeros and ones. Metaphors and similes are wonderful literary devices but they do nothing but obscure the beauty of technology.
Charles PetzoldTag: technology programming computer-science code
It can be argued that the computer is humanity’s attempt to replicate the human brain. This is perhaps an unattainable goal. However, unattainable goals often lead to outstanding accomplishment.
Ammaar Shaukat ReshiTag: humanity technology computers computer-science
A few years ago a friend said that I use to hunt and fish and build houses and things but now my whole life revolved around my computer I replied "But my computer revolves around the world
Stanley Victor PaskavichTag: computers internet computer-science stantasyland
Suppose whatever we can recognize we can find. We can if P=NP.
Lance FortnowTag: science-fiction computer-science
An algorithm must be seen to be believed.
Donald Ervin KnuthTag: technology computer-science engineering algorithms
An international power supply is the device which means it doesn't matter what country you're in, or even if you know what country you're in (more of a problem than you might suspect) - you just plug your Mac in and it figures it out for itself. We call this principle Plug and Play. Or at least, Microsoft calls it that because it hasn't got it yet. In the Mac world we've had it for so long we didn't even think of giving it a name.
Douglas AdamsTag: humor computer-science
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