Computing Infrastructure Quotes

If you believe that the mobile phone is the next supercomputer, which I do, you can imagine a datacenter that is modeled after, literally, hundreds or thousands or millions of mobile phones. They won't have screens on them, but there'll be millions of lightweight mobile-phone processors in the datacenter.

In the post-Snowden world, you need to enable others to build their own cloud and have mobility of applications. That's both because of the physicality of computing - where the speed of light still matters - and because of geopolitics.

5G cell networks create a whole new wave of distributed and edge computing.

The Connection Machines owned by the United States government laboratories were made available to me because they were considered impossible to program and there was no great demand for them at that time.

The Internet is a computing platform built on top of core technology. Applied technology is what gets built on top of that: It's Web services.

Cloud computing means you are doing your computing on somebody else's computer. Looking ahead a little, I firmly believe cloud - previously called grid computing - will become very widespread. It's much cheaper than buying your own computing infrastructure, or maybe you don't have the power to do what you want on your own computer.

I would say that hardware is the bone of the head, the skull. The semiconductor is the brain within the head. The software is the wisdom and data is the knowledge.

Productivity is grounded in the PC. Where does the computing power come from? How would you run 'USA Today' without PCs? Run a hospital without PCs? People don't want products, they want solutions.

They're trying to put data centers in cold environments because they're actually generating so much heat now; they're using up so much electricity.

Cloud computing is a great euphemism for centralization of computer services under one server.

We run the programs, and we support them through all of our folks, but usually the hardware is somewhere else.

There is no neat distinction between operating system software and the software that runs on top of it.