Computing Quotations

Creative Cloud is Adobe re-imagining itself amid a world of these three transformations - cloud, multiscreen and social computing - which are all happening at the same time.

Computers and computing are all around us. Some computing is highly visible, like your laptop. But this is only part of a computing iceberg. A lot more lies hidden below the surface. We don't see and usually don't think about the computers inside appliances, cars, airplanes, cameras, smartphones, GPS navigators and games.

I wouldn't be surprised if tomorrow was the Final Dawn, the last sunrise before the Earth and Sun are reshaped into computing elements.

It is easy to predict that some of the discoveries of research directed towards Grand Challenges - but only the most unexpected ones, and at the most unexpected times - will be the basis of revolutionary improvements in the way that we exploit the power of our future computing devices.

I have to admit it: I'm not a huge fan of the cloud computing concept.

The interesting thing about cloud computing is that we've redefined cloud computing to include everything that we already do,

If someone asks me what cloud computing is, I try not to get bogged down with definitions. I tell them that, simply put, cloud computing is a better way to run your business.

Millennials, and the generations that follow, are shaping technology. This generation has grown up with computing in the palm of their hands. They are more socially and globally connected through mobile Internet devices than any prior generation. And they don't question; they just learn.

If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.

Back in 1995, Bill Gates himself didn't understand that the internet was the direction computing was going.

We expect the launches of Skylake, Microsoft's Windows 10 and new OEM systems will bring excitement to client computing in the second half of 2015.

A typical smart phone has more computing power than Apollo 11 when it landed a man on the moon.

I can see a day soon where you'll create your own college degree by taking the best online courses from the best professors from around the world - some computing from Stanford, some entrepreneurship from Wharton, some ethics from Brandeis, some literature from Edinburgh - paying only the nominal fee for the certificates of completion.

The accumulated knowledge of materials, computing, electromagnetism, product design, and all the rest that we've learned over the last several centuries converts a few ounces of raw materials worth mere pennies into a device with more computing power than the entire planet possessed fifty years ago.

For me, it matters that we drive technology as an equalizing force, as an enabler for everyone around the world. Which is why I do want Google to see, push, and invest more in making sure computing is more accessible, connectivity is more accessible.

The cloud computing model may be a wonderful system when it works, but it's a nightmare when it fails. And the more people who come to depend upon it, the bigger the nightmare.

There's been a big evolution since the days of personal computing. People had a concept of one computing device per family or maybe per person. We've clearly evolved to computing devices becoming more personal.

The idea of free software is that users of computing deserve freedom. They deserve in particular to have control over their computing. And proprietary software does not allow users to have control of their computing.

The great advance of personal computers was not the computing power per se but the fact that it brought it right to your face, that you had control over it, that were confronted with it and could steer it.

By 2020, most home computers will have the computing power of a human brain. That doesn't mean that they are brains, but it means that in terms of raw processing, they can process bits as fast as a brain can. So the question is, how far behind that is the development of a machine that's as smart as we are?

The immediacy of the mobile changes it from what we're accustomed to in the personal computing world to something that's instantaneous... What's interesting and powerful about the mobile environment is that it's connected to services on the Internet. This augments both platforms.

One of the great things about an open system like Android is it addresses all ends of the spectrum. Getting great low-cost computing devices at scale to the developing world is especially meaningful to me.

One thing that is not changing is that customers remain our top priority. SGI is committed to offering services and solutions to our customers that solve their high-performance computing needs.

My father, an entrepreneur but hardly a technologist, was looking to buy a computer to 'automate' our family business. In 1981, he characteristically dove head first into computing and bought an Osborne I.

Right now computing can be hard. Machine language is somewhat inaccessible. And Basic is not quite so bad, but it still blows some people away.

If we extract the rules of how these neural networks are doing computations like pattern recognition we can apply that to create novel computing systems,

Last year there was somewhat of an absence of the PC from the boom; it was very much consumer electronics centric. This year, I think it will be more evenly balanced where we will see the effects of the consumer cycle include more computing products.

Moab Utility/Hosting Suite provides organizations with security, usability and a dynamic utility computing environment. This software will open the door to utility computing for any HPC organization that wants to share resources efficiently.

Mobile computing is an important part of Eclipse's future and supports our goal of delivering a universal tools platform. We are pleased to have an industry leader like Nokia on board as a Strategic Developer and actively leading key new projects focused on J2ME and mobility.

Mobile computing is moving from the fringe to the mainstream. Portable computers are becoming the primary PC.

Sentinel has always provided superior software and technology solutions that support the strategic and operational challenges of our customers. The union of Creative and Sentinel creates a company with architectural vision and a proven ability to successfully address complex mobile computing challenges.

Securing the data on notebook PCs is one of the toughest challenges for I.T. professionals, and with the proliferation of mobile computing across all business segments, the threat of data loss and network breaches through theft of notebooks has never been greater.

There are still opportunities to grow in desktop and mobile computing, ... To say we are going straight into the television market is a bit of an exaggeration. Computing is the core of our business.

Group or collaborative computing requires a walk-up-and-use experience. Fifty percent of meetings are impromptu, unplanned. So if you're planning on providing a collaborative technology, you'd better have one that people don't have to plan to use.

Growing new limbs, copying internal organs like a Xerox machine, exponential increases in computing power, better eyes and ears - I could read stories like this endlessly.

Growth is led by mobile computing with good demand for our mobile processors in all geographies.

I am excited to announce Opera's sharpened focus on bringing the full Web and open standards support to TVs, consumer electronics and other devices. Advances in broadband networks and device computing power have set the stage for an explosion in the number and variety of places we will see Opera powering Internet access.

IBM offers us the best capacity and the best growth path, enabling our company to grow as fast as we need to. We can now offer our services to mid-sized animation firms who are, in turn, looking to scale quickly. And we can do this after only a few days and a phone call to IBM. IBM's ability to offer computing power on demand is critical to our business.

Based upon the information known to use today, we believe that sales in the upcoming quarter will be between $3.35 and $3.45 billion. We anticipate continued stability in our components sales throughout the world will result in worldwide component sales between $2.6 and $2.65 billion. We expect traditional seasonal growth in our Enterprise Computing Solutions business, resulting in worldwide computer products sales between $750 and $800 million.

I have always been a fan of AMD's technology and design philosophies, going back to my early days at IBM, ... Because AMD64 technology was designed and optimized from the start for multi-core processing using its Direct Connect Architecture, we really have only scratched the surface of its true computing potential.

We are extremely pleased to partner with ETV Capital and Bridge Bank. Together with the support and backing of our other financial investors, 3i and Scottish Equity Partners, this facility gives us the flexibility and financial resources we need to take advantage of the ever increasing demand for high-performance FPGA computing solutions in the U.S. military and aerospace sector.

What we have done is taken a lot of inspiration from the mainframe, which was arguably one of the most evolved forms of computing made by man. Fabric7 has taken the overall view of the mainframe and moved it to the 21st century.

I have spent my career trying to raise national awareness of information security issues through my various corporate and public policy positions. By joining the College of Computing at Georgia Tech, one of our nation's most progressive and innovative academic environments for computing, I can now provide my vision and insight to those research and educational initiatives that will drive the future development of cyber security solutions for the everyday computer user.

HP can't correct the systemic problems in its enterprise computing business simply by changing CEOs. There is no magic wand HP can wave to erase years of neglect and failure to invest in its IT business,

HP management argues that the cost savings inherent in this deal are significant and that a stronger enterprise computing company will emerge. We, however, believe that the issue is not whether management can achieve their cost savings target of $2.5 billion. The more important issue is how much revenue will be lost from the acquired Compaq business,

If this works, it will spawn companies that will just set up clusters to provide grid computing to other people.

We're probably about five years into a 30-year cycle of transformation, ... But there is simply no doubt that 25 years from now, when people reflect on the seminal changes of the early days of the century we are about to begin, the impact of networked computing will stand in relief.

Linux promises to fulfill the promise made by Unix a decade ago -- a truly cheap, powerful and entirely open computing architecture. Sun is digging in its heels fighting the trend. As a result, no self-respecting CIO will say she or he wants to do more business with Sun.

Oracle wont be toast if Internet computing fails because it has too much invested in its core business of selling people databases and setting up databases and servicing databases.

Larry predicted that the whole world would one day do its computing on very simple, computer boxes without hard drives and without other gadgets on them. And these things would sell for two, three, four hundred dollars and people didn't need all this complex software that Microsoft was selling them for you know, a hundred and ten dollars every two years.

Our investments in these companies will accelerate their development, and allow us to continue to lead the industry in computing and services for the Internet,

Pen-based computing has the potential to alter the way students and teachers interact.

It definitely makes the company leaner and more efficient. But at the computing company that's left, there's still a great deal of work to be done.

Replacing traditional phone service has been done. Now, it's time to utilize the real power of IP communications by providing organizations with capabilities that they can customize for any application in any environment. This is a good example of how the communications industry and computing industry are colliding.

Results were driven by excellent execution in imaging and printing and good performance in services, ... While overall computing systems results remain weak, we saw improvement in certain segments, including storage and PCs.

Over time, all handheld computing products will become wirelessly enabled, and Qualcomm's CDMA technology provides a great path for enabling these solutions,

Our second-generation convertible notebook builds upon an incredibly successful platform that has positively impacted one-to-one education computing initiatives, government and businesses on a far greater scale than we had anticipated. We have made our new device more compelling with a stunning 14-inch widescreen, blazing notebook performance, advanced pen capabilities and cost structure that makes it more appealing for mass market use. We are very excited by the promise of what Gateway's innovation brings to the market.

Our focus is not on the very highest-end systems but on divisional and departmental computing systems.

I still see huge growth in enterprise computing. In the next 10 years, we will get more innovation for enterprise computing than we have in the last 25 years.

I think you can say that Sun is being aggressive in actually getting Grid computing out there as part of the base load on a number of systems. You are not paying extra for it; you get it as part of the package.

Today's mobile lifestyle requires busy professionals to stay connected and productive throughout the day regardless of location. Our customers can now enjoy high-performance computing whether at their desks, visiting a client or giving a presentation down the hall -- even when disconnected from a power outlet for many hours.

Though we have taken up the issue with the finance ministry a number of times, the issue is still hanging fire. The parent firms want a clarification on computing export profits generated by their Indian subsidiaries or vendors, as such a burden puts them at a disadvantage over other companies in the industry.

The amount of computing resources put into place with a grid architecture can be enormous. Companies get to add the equivalent of a couple thousands PCs and that added horsepower that they do not have to pay for.

We're upping the ante in the server and network computing market, ... Our R&D investment is delivering products that are setting new industry benchmarks, and providing customers with more innovation and choice. With a billion people on the global network today, and millions more joining each week, Sun is redefining the market in the Participation Age. Sun is delivering significant performance gains, while helping customers reduce power consumption and overall costs.

The acquisition of Xircom provides Intel with an award-winning lineup of products and technologies in the fast growing mobile computing area,

Microsoft is moving away from some of these strategic media investments they had made in the '90s so they can focus their energies and resources on the Internet-based computing trends that are occurring right now and could potentially be harmful to their core business.

Microsoft is pleased that customers using SMS 2003, including our recently announced SMS 2003 R2, can take advantage of the new capabilities delivered through Intel AMT and Intel's Professional Business Platform via the Intel-developed add-on software for SMS. This enables customers to better manage their environments and computing infrastructures by reducing many challenges they face today. Similarly, Microsoft is increasing its investments in the Microsoft System Center family of products to address resource optimization and virtual machine life-cycle management so customers can manage their physical and virtualized environments from one toolset.

Microsoft Research New Faculty Fellows represent the best new professors in computing disciplines today. The intellectual curiosity and capacity that each fellow has demonstrated is inspirational, and we will watch their careers develop with interest.

We continue to drive the convergence of computing and communications through our product lineup, and with this we see wireless local area networking and wide area cellular technologies coming together,

Who controls the future of computing is really what this is all about. All these vendors understand that this is a transitional time for the industry where platforms are evolving, and everybody wants to be the market leader and control things.

The rapid spread of digital content in our personal and work lives continues to drive strong demand for consumer electronics devices and computing systems with higher storage capacity, performance, security and new capabilities that make storage easier and more cost-effective to deploy and use. Seagate continues to invest in technologies that give customers more freedom to move, manage and protect information used in computing and consumer electronics applications.

We are constantly evaluating the needs of our customers as well as our business needs and feel that offering customers a variety of computing experiences further enhances and helps with their online protection. Trend has a proven track record and made technical and business sense for us to work with them.

We are reaching a point where the search engine becomes the basic interface for everything on a PC or computing system, including launching applications or files as well as finding information.

The danger with pervasive computing is that difficult-to-use devices are infiltrating our lives in a way that are not natural to the way we interact,

Xircom's strengths in small-form-factor design combined with our silicon expertise will allow us to provide customers with new and innovative solutions for linking mobile computing devices to corporate wired and wireless networks.

What it means is Eclipse now gets to expand its footprint beyond the traditional computing environment, and it gets to reach out to the mobile device.

We believe that Windows 2000 will ultimately be a widely adopted corporate computing platform over the next two years, and we remain bullish on Microsoft's prospects.

We think that it's as critical and obvious as the idea of having wireless computing in the field.

The standard definition of AI is that which we don't understand.

Would you really buy a computer early if computing prices are falling? ... You'll probably have a bit of a bulge in spending in the fourth quarter, but we think people are overstating the benefits.

With today's computing needs, there is generally a greater need to be able to handle a large number of tasks simultaneously, as opposed to single, difficult tasks.

In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.

The personal and informational connections made possible through computing and communications technology are becoming ever more critical to economic, educational and social progress,

Until now, searching the Web has lacked the power of intuition, ... We have built an industry-compatible platform that marries computing algorithms and human thought, allowing users to access Jetpaks created by a social network of individuals who have found and created new online information.

When we go from single core to dual core, and dual to quad core, we get huge performance increases. When you look at the power efficiency and the response of the computing workload, you get the benefit.

When we heard the news this morning, it was clear to me we're moving up to the next level. Consolidation in the client-server computing industry is opening the door for software on demand.

The perception among high school students and their parents is that the game is over, that all computing jobs are going overseas. It's an extraordinarily widely held misperception.

Ultimately, it's the consumer that's going to judge whether a new machine is faster than an older one. The chip inside doesn't matter to the buyer as much as the computing experience.

Computer loss and theft represents a huge security risk to both individuals and corporations. It's absolutely imperative to safeguard computing assets because of the direct financial implications as well as the liability of exposure and malicious use of the data that the computer holds. A single $1,000 laptop may hold credit card numbers, private client information and years of accumulated knowledge that could cost an organization millions of dollars in business and lawsuits. A few simple steps can mitigate risk and prevent a devastating loss.

Computing is evolving beyond phones, and people are using it in context across many scenarios, be it in their television, be it in their car, be it something they wear on their wrist or even something much more immersive.

Computing is no longer just about PCs, laptops or even cell phones, but rather about the promise of pervasive computing -- which will largely be enabled by sensors. This announcement will allow Java -- just as it did with cell phones and the Internet -- to play a pivotal role in enabling the coming wave of sensor driven computing.

What is happening is a little like what happened in the 1920s, the period where demand growth was quite strong but supply growth was even faster. You had new technology then, it was electric power. Now its computing power.

What we are seeing is an extension of the technical computing market into the commercial space.

At some point the sales of non-PC computing devices are going to exceed those of PCs, at least in terms of units, and no way is Intel going to have the kind of market dominance it has in the PC market--there are just so many different types of devices, standards, and vendors.

The transition to 64-bit computing is not in everyone's forecast. PC and server growth should be much higher than people are expecting and numbers for Dell will continue to come up,

The widespread adoption of broadband and the continued advances in personal computing technology are finally making it possible for the collective creation of an online world on a realistic scale.

While we believe server-based computing will continue to be a healthy trend, we believe Citrix may be challenged to grow at faster than 25 percent longer term,

The technology industry is unique in being able to effect social, political and economic progress on a global basis. We take that responsibility, and our partners in innovation around the world, very seriously -- that's why we're proud to provide the computing power needed for Architecture for Humanity to help improve living conditions for so many people.

These feature-rich multimedia PCs are well-suited for the performance demands that a PC will need in order to not only provide a great computing experience, but also to enhance the entertainment experience.

These stocks have been tied to the computing market for the past few years but now that you have consumer electronics as an area of growth, the traditional cyclicality in this industry has been offset. Demand is in place to set up the industry for a perfect storm in a good way.