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

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" The great advance of personal computers was not the computing power per se but the fact that it brought it right to your face, that you had control over it, that were confronted with it and could steer it. "

" Over and over again, financial experts and wonkish talking heads endeavor to explain these mysterious, 'toxic' financial instruments to us lay folk. Over and over, they ignobly fail, because we all know that no one understands credit default obligations and derivatives, except perhaps Mr. Buffett and the computers who created them. "

Richard Dooling

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

" At our computer club, we talked about it being a revolution. Computers were going to belong to everyone, and give us power, and free us from the people who owned computers and all that stuff. "

" Science fiction has done a really good job of scaring us into thinking that computers shouldn't get too smart, because as soon as they get really smart, they're going to take over the world and kill us, or something like that. But why would they do that? "

" I think computers are the ultimate writing tool. I'm a very slow writer, so I appreciate it every day. "

" 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. "

" People already have bionic arms and legs that work by the power of thought. And we increasingly outsource mental and communicative activities to computers. We are merging with our smartphones. Very soon, they will just be part of the body. "

Yuval Noah Harari

" I got up with my wife, I sat down at the computer when she went to work, and I didn't stop until she got home. "

" Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living. "

Nicholas Negroponte

" The reason why Apple computers have worked so well over time is that, unlike Microsoft, they don't bend over backward to be compatible with every piece of hardware or software in the digital universe. To code or create for Apple, you follow Apple's rules. If you're even allowed to. "

Douglas Rushkoff

" We can't really know ourselves because we have not created ourselves. But we can know computers, we can know cars, because anything that we made, we can understand. "

" Every company that made computers when we started the Mac, they're all gone. "

" I'm pretty adept with computers and Photoshop for my blog, and I found my style with a conversational voice and an image-ready column. "

" The Internet is a powerful way to make lots of money... But we are not going to buy Yahoo! "

Sumner Redstone

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

" I believe China is a major trade violator. The Chinese break all the rules. They counterfeit our goods, steal our international property rights, and hack the computers of our industries and government. Something must be done about it. "

Lawrence Kudlow

" 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. "

" Every ISP is being attacked, maliciously both from in the United States and outside of the United States, by those who want to invade people's privacy. But more importantly they want to take control of computers, they want to hack them, they want to steal information. "

" Computers were programmed to swap out error-prone, inconsistent human calculation with digital perfection. "

" We went from a world where almost nobody knew anything about computers to a world where almost all of us are computer geeks for a huge fraction of our day. And I'd like to see that happen with the digital world of biological molecules, too. "

George M. Church

" There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark. "

Stephen Hawking

" I just think there's a general interest in the world of computers. "

" I'm not afraid of computers taking over the world. "

" More and more people are seeing the films on computers - lousy sound, lousy picture - and they think they've seen the film, but they really haven't. "

" In a way, digital cameras were like very early personal computers such as the Commodore 64 - clunky and able to do only a few things. "

" The whole hardware industry has experienced the phenomenon in which every time computers get cheaper, they appeal to a new set of users; every time they get more powerful, old customers upgrade. "

Nathan Myhrvold

" We didn't know the importance of home computers before the Internet. We had them mostly for fun, then the Internet came along and was enabled by all the PCs out there. "

" I wouldn't call myself a geek, but I do sometimes teach Mommy and Daddy stuff about computers. And I do watch TV, but only informative programmes like the news and documentaries. "