#compute

I met Woz when I was 13, at a friend's garage. He was about 18. He was, like, the first person I met who knew more electronics than I did at that point. We became good friends, because we shared an interest in computer and we had a sense of humor. We pulled all kinds of pranks together. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#became #because #computer #did #electronics

I'm fortunate in that I'm a lecturer too and this gets me out and about and away from the computer. I also have loads of friends all around the world, plus a core group of special people in my life that I can lean on, chat to, or just hang with. ↗

— Paul Kane

#also #around #away #chat #computer

Writing can be a very solitary business. It's you sat at a desk typing words into a computer. It can get lonely sometimes and lots of writers live quite isolated lives. ↗

— Paul Kane

#computer #desk #get #into #isolated

The jewelry business is a very, very tough business - tougher than the computer business. You truly have to understand how to take care of your customers. ↗

— Guy Kawasaki

#care #computer #customers #how #jewelry

The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited. ↗

— Alan Kay

#act #computer #exploited #language #like

I decry the current tendency to seek patents on algorithms. There are better ways to earn a living than to prevent other people from making use of one's contributions to computer science. ↗

— Donald Knuth

#better ways #computer #computer science #contributions #current

In fact what I would like to see is thousands of computer scientists let loose to do whatever they want. That's what really advances the field. ↗

— Donald Knuth

#computer #fact #field #i #in fact

People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things that build on eachother, like a wall of mini stones. ↗

— Donald Knuth

#art #build #computer #computer science #doing

Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs. Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do. ↗

— Donald Knuth

#beings #change #computer #concentrate #construction

People who are more than casually interested in computers should have at least some idea of what the underlying hardware is like. Otherwise the programs they write will be pretty weird. ↗

— Donald Knuth

#computers #hardware #idea #interested #least