Processing Speed Quotes

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 a little slow, so forgive me if I'm inarticulate.

The inside of a computer is as dumb as hell but it goes like mad!

A state-of-the-art calculation requires 100 hours of CPU time on the state-of-the-art computer, independent of the decade.

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.

The difference between us and a computer is that, the computer is blindingly stupid, but it is capable of being stupid many, many million times a second.

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.

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

The number of queries in a large dataset is exponential, and it's growing exponentially. No matter how fast you make your system, you're never going to be able to get all that information.

I'm very slow. I'm a slow learner.

The guitar is a much more efficient machine than a computer. More responsive.

Just think of the opportunities we can unlock by making education as addictive as a video game. This type of experiential, addictive learning improves decision-making skills and increases the processing speed and spatial skills of the brain. When was the last time your child asked for help with a video game?

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?

I get extra time to take the test because of my ADD. Everybody's brains works differently and I just need longer for things to register.

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