Jim Horning Quotes

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The shortest program I ever expended significant intellectual energy on occupied 116 bits on the Bendix G-15. It was a variant of the "four-word memory clear" routine.

Jim Horning

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
Insight often trumps calculation.

Jim Horning

The A.M Turing Award is the closest thing computer science and information technology have to a Nobel Prize. To my great pleasure, this year the award is going to Chuck Thacker, who designed or strongly influenced many of the machines I used during a very productive part of my career (Maxc, Alto, Dolphin, Dorado, Firefly).Although Chuck has called himself "a humble purveyor of cycles," the machines and software he designed have made substantial differences in how we compute today.

Jim Horning

It's rather hard to visualize the magnitude of the transfer of wealth that is taking place.

Jim Horning

Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.

Jim Horning