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" Calculating does not equal mathematics. It's a subsection of it. In years gone by it was the limiting factor, but computers now allow you to make the whole of mathematics more intellectual. "

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" This is what customers pay us for - to sweat all these details so it's easy and pleasant for them to use our computers. We're supposed to be really good at this. That doesn't mean we don't listen to customers, but it's hard for them to tell you what they want when they've never seen anything remotely like it. "

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" I think I thought it would be important for electronics as we knew it then, but that was a much simpler business and electronics was mostly radio and television and the first computers. "

" There's so much free material on the Internet you can learn from, and some people are pure self-starters: they pick up computers and teach themselves everything. Certainly there are millions of people like that. But at the same time, I think it's a pretty small percentage of the population. "

" Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done. "

" Without computers, in the 17th century, we could classify the entire animal kingdom... there was this idea of the speciation, right? And now, all a search engine is is essentially the mathematical speciation of ideas - and these things really derive from the way that language is used and the way words relate. "

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" Silicon Valley is a great place for Bitcoin, since everyone understands computers, and there are lots of libertarians running around. "

" One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.' "

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" No one ever said on their deathbed, 'Gee, I wish I had spent more time alone with my computer'. "

" I never have used computers or calculators. I've always been able to figure out in my head, far before my opposition has, in negotiating for acquisitions, where we need to be and where the numbers are and how we could get the best sight of the bargain, without having to resort to accountants or assistants or financial experts. "

" With faster Internet and better computers, you'd better believe we're creating and consuming more digital data. "

" Something else has happened with computers. "

" I just became one with my browser software. "

" I'm not on Twitter or Facebook and don't even use email. I don't trust computers: one day they'll all break down, and everyone will be knackered. "

" Right now, computers, which are supposed to be our servant, are oppressing us. "

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" Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy. "

" Google is working on self-driving cars, and they seem to work. People are so bad at driving cars that computers don't have to be that good to be much better. "

" Pixar is not about computers, it's about people. "

" Computers don't create computer animation any more than a pencil creates pencil animation. What creates computer animation is the artist. "

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" India for sure is a mobile-first country. But I don't think it will be a mobile-only country for all time. An emerging market will have more computing in their lives, not less computing, as there is more GDP and there is more need. As they grow, they will also want computers that grow from their phone. "

" I've never had Internet access. Actually, I have looked at things on other people's computers as a bystander. A few times in my life I've opened email accounts, twice actually, but it's something I don't want in my life right now. "

" I think of myself as a Hollywood hillbilly, but I'm sick of all these questions people ask about Alabama. 'Do you have an outhouse?' 'Is there a lot of inbreeding in your family?' They think all Southerners don't have computers and TV sets and that we're all still living in 1862. "

" Men and machines are good at different things. People form plans and make decisions in complicated situations. We are less good at making sense of enormous amounts of data. Computers are exactly the opposite: they excel at efficient data processing but struggle to make basic judgments that would be simple for any human. "

" I've tried word processors, but I think I'm too old a dog to use one. "

" When Steve Jobs toured Xerox PARC and saw computers running the first operating system that used Windows and a mouse, he assumed he was looking at a new way to work a personal computer. He brought the concept back to Cupertino and created the Mac, then Bill Gates followed suit, and the rest is history. "

" I'm not really a knob-twiddler. I always work with an engineer; I'm not super hands-on when it comes to mixing boards and computers. I'm much more about what I'm hearing and what it needs to be like. I deal with songs and ideas and instruments. "

" Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. "

" Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs. "

" I think a lot of people will be liberated from a lot of oppressive manufacturing jobs, or a lot of service jobs, because they'll be done by computers. There'll be the world's best education available online and free. "

" There's no other major item most of us own that is as confusing, unpredictable and unreliable as our personal computers. "

" Computers are great tools, but they need to be applied to the physical world. "