Todd Howard Quotes

I'm a physicist, and we have something called Moore's Law, which says computer power doubles every 18 months. So every Christmas, we more or less assume that our toys and appliances are more or less twice as powerful as the previous Christmas.

Computers double their performance every month.

PCs don't suck. They're inadequate.

If you could utilize the resources of the end users' computers, you could do things much more efficiently.

At some point, Moore's law will break down.

It's hardware that makes a machine fast. It's software that makes a fast machine slow.

A big part of the success of Microsoft was that every year, the chips our software ran on got faster and cheaper. They doubled in capability every 18 months under Moore's law.

The form of computers has never been important, with speed and performance being the only things that mattered.

I saw the logarithmic growth of computer power.

Computers get better faster than anything else ever. A child's PlayStation today is more powerful than a military supercomputer from 1996.

I think it killed the performance on a lot of the systems in the Labs for years because everyone had their own copy of it, but it wasn't being shared, and so they wasted huge amounts of memory back when memory was expensive.

The definition of an 'operating system' is bound to evolve with customer demands and technological possibilities.

Last time I checked, the digital universe was expanding at the rate of five trillion bits per second in storage and two trillion transistors per second on the processing side.

Even complex passwords are getting easy to break if they're too short. That's because today's inexpensive computer chips have the power of supercomputers from the year 2000.

Computers get better faster than anything else ever.

Compounding the cost, most mapping software is processor-intense.

Nanotechnology will let us build computers that are incredibly powerful. We'll have more power in the volume of a sugar cube than exists in the entire world today.

Man-made computers are limited in their performance by finite processing speed and memory. So, too, the cosmic computer is limited in power by its age and the finite speed of light.

Computer power grows according to Moore's law, as does the sophistication of handheld devices.

As long as we can make them smaller, we can make them faster.

Every one of today's smartphones has thousands of times more processing power than the computers that guided astronauts to the moon.

No consumer product improves more drastically, year after year, than the computer.

The speed at which modern CPUs perform computations still blows my mind daily.

To me, it looks more or less like the hardware designers have run out of ideas and that they're trying to pass the blame for the future demise of Moore's Law to the software writers by giving us machines that work faster only on a few key benchmarks!

If it weren't for Moore's law changing the playing field continuously, I would have been long gone. The rapid pace of hardware evolution still keeps things fresh for me.