Computing Quotes

In 2000, when my partner Ben Horowitz was CEO of the first cloud computing company, Loudcloud, the cost of a customer running a basic Internet application was approximately $150,000 a month.

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.

The computing field is always in need of new cliches.

I have discovered that there are two types of command interfaces in the world of computing: good interfaces and user interfaces.

I think computing power is ready to do 3D justice. It was great for shooters and racing games in the past, but I didn't think it was right for strategy games.

The computing world is very good at things that we are not. It is very good at memory.

Every kid coming out of Harvard, every kid coming out of school now thinks he can be the next Mark Zuckerberg, and with these new technologies like cloud computing, he actually has a shot.

In the practical world of computing, it is rather uncommon that a program, once it performs correctly and satisfactorily, remains unchanged forever.

I suppose many people will continue moving towards careless computing, because there's a sucker born every minute.

Items of interest will be located, identified, monitored, and remotely controlled through technologies such as radio-frequency identification, sensor networks, tiny embedded servers, and energy harvesters - all connected to the next-generation internet using abundant, low-cost, and high-power computing.

In 20 or 30 years, you'll be able to hold in your hand as much computing knowledge as exists now in the whole city, or even the whole world.

They don't call it the Internet anymore, they call it cloud computing. I'm no longer resisting the name. Call it what you want.

There are no projects per se in the Computing Sciences Research Center.

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

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

The Internet creates as well as destroys. Social networks, search advertising, and cloud computing are multibillion dollar industries that didn't exist 10 years ago. They are products of the same force that has rendered the Postal Service's core business obsolete.

One reason you should not use web applications to do your computing is that you lose control.

In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word "frustration".

The utility model of computing - computing resources delivered over the network in much the same way that electricity or telephone service reaches our homes and offices today - makes more sense than ever.

Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living.

Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs founded Apple Inc, which set the computing world on its ear with the Macintosh in 1984.

While I admire the insights of many of the people in the world of computing, I get this cold feeling that I speak a different language.