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" Computers are the most powerful tools that humanity has ever created. Yet, we treat them largely as a black box; as if it were an alien artifact that magically appeared on desks, in homes, and in our pockets. "

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" I got my first computer when I was 6, and I was part of that early generation of children who grew up with computers always being around. I fell in love with them early on. "

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" Than Shwe ordered the confiscation of all cell phones and laptops and computers so no reportage could come out of Burma. It seemed clear that a demon, something diabolical, rather than something compassionate and human was in charge of Burma. "

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" 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. "

" We're entering a new world in which data may be more important than software. "

" Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who's going to build. "

" Movies began as a communal experience. Even though we now watch them as DVD's, sometimes alone on our computers, mostly in the history of cinema it has been a communal experience. "

" My mom was a biological illustrator for a time before computers replaced that job. "

" People talk about computer programmers as if computers are our whole lives. That's simply not true. "

" In computers, we do all kinds of manual manipulations. We grab and drag icons. We click on and open windows. We pull down a screen. We stretch a screen. We scroll up and down. "

" I'm really anti-option, so computers have been my nightmare with recording. I don't want endless tracks; I want less tracks. I want decisions to be made. "

" What I was proud of was that I used very few parts to build a computer that could actually speak words on a screen and type words on a keyboard and run a programming language that could play games. And I did all this myself. "

" A wide variety of devices beyond personal computers are arriving, many of which will be used to browse the Web... The Flash engineering team has taken this on with a major overhaul of the mainstream Flash Player for a variety of devices. "

" I don't look at computers as opponents. For me it is much more interesting to beat humans. "

Magnus Carlsen

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" 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. "

" We've been working now with computers and education for 30 years, computers in developing countries for 20 years, and trying to make low-cost machines for 10 years. This is not a sudden turn down the road. "

" My life's goal is to get rid of computers and invent everything that removes its necessity. "

" Why pay a fee for Internet content when a million free sites are just a click away? There's no incentive until people are too addicted to the Net to turn off their computers, yet are bored with what's available. "

" I grew up before computers. Computers are changing things, not all for the good. "

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" I had been doing MP3 players and handheld computers since 1990-1991, and so they sought me out because of my experience. And about 18 generations of iPod and three generations of iPhone later, I decided to leave Apple. "

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" People are on their computers more than watching TV, because you can only watch voyeur TV, which is basically what reality shows are, for so long. "

" Well, I had a lot of help from my father with the soldering and so on, and he was very good at math and was fascinated with computers, and so I was fortunate enough to have a bunch of exposure going all the way back to high school - this was in the 1960s. "

" We can be incredibly disconnected in this day and age with computers and cell phones. "

" Computers and the Internet have made it really easy to rant. It's made everyone overly opinionated. "

" 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. "

" To me, there is something superbly symbolic in the fact that an astronaut, sent up as assistant to a series of computers, found that he worked more accurately and more intelligently than they. Inside the capsule, man is still in charge. "

" There's my education in computers, right there; this is the whole thing, everything I took out of a book. "

" The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do. "

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

" I just like music that sounds like music. Not like machines and computers and things that you design to make things sound slick and perfect. "

" I think there is an awful lot of technology for technology's sake. I have yet to be convinced by my husband that persuading our mobiles to talk to our computers is going to be quicker and more straightforward than scribbling a note in our kitchen diary. "