This post is a collection of quotes about ASCII (initially released in 1963). There are 2 quotes listed below. License: CC BY-SA 3.0
1. "Originally based on the (modern) English alphabet, ASCII encodes 128 specific characters into seven-bit integers... Ninety-five of the encoded characters are printable: these include the digits 0 to 9, lowercase letters a to z, uppercase letters A to Z, and punctuation symbols." (Wikipedia: ASCII, 1.12.23 UTC 18:18)
2. "All modern computer systems instead use Unicode, which has millions of code points, but the first 128 of these are the same as the ASCII set." (Wikipedia: ASCII, 1.12.23 UTC 18:18)
