Jason Fried Quotes

Computers, like automobiles and airplanes, do only what people tell them to do.

A computer doesn't have a mind of its own - it needs someone else's to function.

I got interested in computers and how they could be enslaved to the megalomaniac impulses of a teenager.

I thank God for not making me a computer scientist.

No more than these machines need the mathematician know what he does.

Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering.

I just write mechanical things.

Computations are everywhere, once you begin to look at things in a certain way.

I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.

People don't understand computers. Computers are magical boxes that do things. People believe what computers tell them.

Algorithm

The idea behind digital computers may be explained by saying that these machines are intended to carry out any operations which could be done by a human computer.

It seemed really amazing that you could write a few lines of code and have it learn to do interesting things.

Computer science inverts the normal. In normal science, you're given a world, and your job is to find out the rules. In computer science, you give the computer the rules, and it creates the world.

I'm kind of a robot in a way. Or a Tron.

The only thing I understand deeply, because in my teens I was thinking about it, and every year of my life, is software. So I'll never be hands-on on anything except software.

Computers add convenience to our everyday lives, but we are limited in what we can do with technology others have imagined. The ability for humans to teach machines entirely new things - coding - is nothing short of a superpower.

People who tell computers what to do, and people who are told by computers what to do.

We're losing track of the vastness of the potential for computer science. We really have to revive the beautiful intellectual joy of it, as opposed to the business potential.

Robotics is very interdisciplinary, and so, except at a very few colleges, there is not a major that is exactly fitted to robotics.

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.

I'm not a robot.

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

An algorithm must be seen to be believed.

Yeah, computers are going to take over the programming business because they have become so fast recently that they can solve the Halting Problem in five seconds flat.