Tony Vincent Quotes

This is where the world is going: direct access from anywhere to any type of data, whether it's a small piece of data or a small answer but a long algorithm to create that answer. The user doesn't care about this.

Something else has happened with computers.

The Xbox is how the computer will be built in the next 20 years. More semiconductor capacity will go to the user experience.

Everything is going to be connected to cloud and data... All of this will be mediated by software.

Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.

It takes these very simple-minded instructions - 'Go fetch a number, add it to this number, put the result there, perceive if it's greater than this other number' - but executes them at a rate of, let's say, 1,000,000 per second. At 1,000,000 per second, the results appear to be magic.

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

The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.

Background updating is absolutely the future.

To make a computer do something that would take a human a long period of time was always interesting.

Facebook is at the forefront. It's the company that can fundamentally change the way information is being exchanged and processed. It can be the basis for artificial intelligence to develop over time.

Knowledge created a new culture of business derived from the information gathering and analysis capabilities of first the mainframe and then the PC.

Technology has the benefit of being easily scalable. A few weeks or months of coding can result in solutions that reap huge benefits. The global success of Facebook, Twitter, and Google are all triumphs of technology.

I took computers in high school. I would do all my own programming, but I didn't see the future of computers for anything other than data processing. Who was going to use a computer for communications?

Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs.

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

They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.

Computing is kind of a mess. Your computer doesn't know where you are. It doesn't know what you're doing. It doesn't know what you know.

The thing that's changed the most has just been the rapid technology.

If the clockwork universe equated the human body with the mechanics of the clock, the digital universe now equates human consciousness with the processing of the computer. We joke that things don't compute, that we need a reboot, or that our memory has been wiped.

I see the player piano as the grandfather of the computer, the ancestor of the entire nightmare we live in, the birth of the binary world where there is no option other than yes or no and where there is no refuge.

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 day I woke up and Reddit was working on its own was just the most incredible feeling.

People are good at intuition, living our lives. What are computers good at? Memory.

Computing is becoming universal.