Computer Application Quotes

#1. FORTRAN, the infantile disorder, by now nearly 20 years old, is hopelessly inadequate for whatever computer application you have in mind today: it is now too clumsy, too risky, and too expensive to use.

Edsger Dijkstra

#2. The building of a computer application is very identical to the building of a house; they both have to be logically designed.

Leonard Rattini

#3. Willpower is the fuel that runs human life; Like a driver in a computer application, Or Operating System in cyber programme, Willpower works life to performances; Life is deadwood; life, robust carrion, Without willpower in bright flame within.

Praveen Kumar

#4. Your pupillary muscles relax when your body gives up.

D. B. Weiss

#5. Oh, trust me, Lieutenant Colchester, I always keep both eyes on a man directly underneath me. Both hands too.

Sierra Simone

#6. Often people, especially computer engineers, focus on the machines. But in fact we need to focus on humans, on how humans care about doing programming or operating the application of the machines.

Yukihiro Matsumoto

#7. If you don't handle [exceptions], we shut your application down. That dramatically increases the reliability of the system.

Anders Hejlsberg

#8. Any town that doesn't have sidewalks doesn't love its children.

Margaret Mead

#9. The most important application of quantum computing in the future is likely to be a computer simulation of quantum systems, because that's an application where we know for sure that quantum systems in general cannot be efficiently simulated on a classical computer.

David Deutsch

#10. Three years ago, the white hope of the theatre. Today, a mug. That's New York for you. Puts you on a Christmas tree, and then - the alley.

Ben Hecht

#11. Xerox did OK in moving to digital in the commercial space. They didn't do well in the consumer market, but they're not a consumer brand. They don't even know how to spell consumer.

Antonio Perez

#12. E-mail is the most influential application ever to appear on a personal computer, and it remains sadly deficient.

Alan Cooper

#13. I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream.

Bruce Springsteen

#14. We should never allow computers to make inherently governmental decisions in terms of the application of military force, even if that's happening on the internet.

Edward Snowden

#15. The Apple IIc, with its 128KB of RAM, 125KB floppy drive, word processor, and spreadsheet application, did everything I could imagine a computer doing at the time.

Andrew Rosenthal

#16. Something about the way she moves through the world does not lend itself to the care of fragile objects.

Chelsea Cain

#17. The American public really does have a death wish for me. They want me to die. I'm not going to die.

Courtney Love

#18. I think it is widely agreed that Carl Steinitz, over the 50 years he taught at Harvard, has been one of the most important figures in influencing the theory and practice of landscape architecture and the application of computer technology to planning.

Jack Dangermond