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" Computers in general, and software in particular, are much more difficult than other kinds of technology for most people to grok, and they overwhelm us with a sense of mystery. "

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" One of the biggest challenges we had in the first decade was not that many people had personal computers. There weren't that many people to sell to, and it was hard to identify them. "

Steve Case

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Challenges

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

" There is better than a good chance that while relaxing on a beach somewhere or sipping a martini in your favorite lounge, you have heard music that makes raise your eyebrow and ask, 'What kind of music is that?' "

" This is a man who was 23 years old when he theorized the idea of creating a programmable machine, and in that way, Turing foresaw computers and artificial intelligence. These were revolutionary ideas at that time. "

" I don't understand computers. I've been unable to construct a working mental model of how they do what they do. I can break software by looking at it. I can blow anything up. Without trying. It's sort of like being a dowser. And this extreme elaborate clumsiness on my part is actually something people will pay me for. It's quite wonderful. "

Brenda Laurel

Looking

Computers

" I'm pretty much a dinosaur in the studio. I like things hand-drawn, even today. The story artists use Cintiqs, but I'm the only person who hasn't completely converted to computers. I like the Cintiq, but there's something about the raw emotional power of using paper and pencil. "

" As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications. "

" 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. "

" I start every book with something that outrages me. I'm outraged by the FBI, the CIA, and computers that seem to have catalogued our lives. Power too often is accompanied by irresponsibility. "

" Avoid the spectacle of technology and instead focus on technology and science solving real problems. "

" A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you. "

" How did the economy produce all these amazing things that we have around us - computers and cell phones and so on? There were a bunch of ideas, and the good ones grew and prospered. And the bad ones were pretty ruthlessly weeded out. "

Tim Harford

Ideas

Good

" It always helps to be a good programmer. It is important to like computers and to be able to think of things people would want to do with their computers. "

" Computers make me totally blank out. "

Dalai Lama

Out

Totally

" The future of television is not on television but online. A majority of us are turning to our computers and mobile devices for news and entertainment, Millennials especially. "

" Instead of the cashier and ticket-ripper of the movie theater, the block chain consists of thousands of computers that can process digital tickets, money, and many other fiduciary objects in digital form. Think of thousands of robots wearing green eye shades, all checking each other's accounting. "

" Computers get better faster than anything else ever. "

" I just want to shed light, illuminate and turn the spotlight over to all of the black people who have been being futuristic and innovative since instruments were plugged into a wall. With computers, machines, and music, black people have been contributing to that a great deal for a long time. "

" If the machines can take the drudgery out of it and just leave us with the joy of drawing, then that's the best of both worlds - and I'll use those computers! "

Don Bluth

Drawing

Leave

" Computers and electronic music are not the opposite of the warm human music. It's exactly the same. "

" If you could utilize the resources of the end users' computers, you could do things much more efficiently. "

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

" Some media companies that rely on advertising revenue are tying journalist compensation to the traffic their story generates. It doesn't work because it de-prioritizes writing. "

" I have a cell phone that doesn't behave like a phone: It behaves like a computer that makes calls. Computers are becoming an integral part of daily life. And if people don't start designing them to be more user-friendly, then an even larger part of the population is going to be left out of even more stuff. "

" We resemble computers intellectually and animals emotionally. "

" Video games and computers have become babysitters for kids. "

" Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog. "

" In the future, I'm sure there will be a lot more robots in every aspect of life. If you told people in 1985 that in 25 years they would have computers in their kitchen, it would have made no sense to them. "

" By the time I was a senior in high school, I knew I wanted to move to Silicon Valley and learn more about computers and the Internet. I just fell in love with technology and the potential of everything the Internet had to offer. "

" 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. "