Quotes about bandwidth

A collection of quotes on the topic of bandwidth, people, computer, use.

Quotes about bandwidth

“Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.”

Andrew S. Tanenbaum book Computer Networks

Computer Networks, 3rd ed., p. 83. (paraphrasing Dr. Warren Jackson, Director, University of Toronto Computing Services (UTCS) circa 1985)

“Give us bandwidth or kill us!”

Jude Milhon (1939–2003) American hacker & author

Interview in Wired (1995)

“A god who is capable of sending intelligible signals to millions of people simultaneously, and of receiving messages from all of them simultaneously, cannot be, whatever else he might be, simple. Such Bandwidth!”

Richard Dawkins book The God Delusion

Source: The God Delusion

God, People, Intelligence

“On the properties of God: "Such a bandwidth! God, who may not have a brain made of neurons, or a CPU made of silicon, but if he has the powers attributed to him he must have something far more elaborately and non-randomly constructed than the largest brain or the largest computer we know."”

Richard Dawkins book The God Delusion

Source: The God Delusion (2006), p. 184

God

“Most of the network related programming in games has to do with providing a good interactive experience when playing over the internet. This matter is very different from serving web pages. The primary concern there is to handle connection latency, latency fluctuations, packet loss and bandwidth limitations, and pretty much hide all of that from the player's experience.”

Timothee Besset French software programmer

Quoted in Brian Boyko, "ID Software Developer Timothee Besset on Network Performance in Games" http://www.networkperformancedaily.com/2007/01/id_software_developer_timothee.html Network Performance Daily (2007-01-29).

Game, Loss

“The more improbable the message, the less "compressible" it is, and the more bandwidth it requires. This is Shannon's point: the essence is its improbability.”

William Poundstone (1955) American writer

Part One, Entropy, Randomness, Disorder, Uncertainty, p. 57
Fortune's Formula (2005)

“It's not important to me… people will see my films if they want to. Also, I cannot deal with so many things, I have bandwidth only for that much.”

Aamir Khan (1965) Indian film actor, director, and producer of Hindi Cinema

Aamir Khan turns down Madam Tussauds http://www.ibosnetwork.com/newsmanager/templates/template1.aspx?a=21052&z=4.

People

“Twenty-five years from now…Computers will be exactly like telephones. They are probably going to be communicating all the time … I would hope that by the year 2000 there is this big [networking] infrastructure, giving us arbitrary bandwidth on a pay-as-you-go basis.”

Gordon Bell (1934) American computer engineer

Computer World "VAX Man" interview

Hope, Communication, Time

“"Personal density," Kurt Mondaugen in his Peenemünde office not too many steps away from here, enunciating the Law which will one day bear his name, "is directly proportional to temporal bandwidth."
"Temporal bandwidth," is the width of your present, your now. It is the familiar "∆ t" considered as a dependent variable. The more you dwell in the past and in the future, the thicker your bandwidth, the more solid your persona. But the narrower your sense of Now, the more tenuous you are.”

Thomas Pynchon book Gravity's Rainbow

Gravity's Rainbow (1973)

Law, Sense, Past, Future

“Where will we be ten years from now? CRT’s will be a thing of the past, multimedia will no longer be a buzzword, pen-based and voice input will be everywhere, and university students will still be editing with emacs. Pens and touchscreens are too low-bandwidth for real interaction; voice will probably also turn out to be inadequate. (Anyway, who would want to work in an environment surrounded by people talking to their computers?) Mice are sure to be with us a while longer, so we should learn how to use them well.”

Rob Pike (1956) software engineer

Rob Pike (1991). " A Minimalist Global User Interface http://research.swtch.com/help.pdf". Proc. Summer 1991 USENIX Conference, pp. 267–279.

People, Learning, Universe, Past