Instruction Set Computer

Famous quotes containing the words instruction, set and/or computer:

    Everything from airplanes to kitchen blenders—and even chopsticks—comes with an instruction manual. Children, despite all their complexity, do not.
    Lawrence Kutner (20th century)

    Speak of me as I am. Nothing extenuate,
    Nor set down aught in malice.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    The Buddha, the Godhead, resides quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a mountain or in the petals of a flower.
    Robert M. Pirsig (b. 1928)