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" I am not the only person who uses his computer mainly for the purpose of diddling with his computer. "

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" More than any other modern tool, computers are a total mystery to their users. Most people never open them up to fix them or to see how they work. "

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" I'm a '70s mom, and my daughter is a '90s mom. I know a lot of women my age who are real computer freaks. "

Florence Henderson

" Today, computers help us making the music. It's really a tool. "

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" Elon Musk is talking about silicon nanoparticles pulsing through our veins to make us sort of semi-cyborg computers. But why not take a noninvasive approach? I've been working and trying to think and invent a way to do this for a number of years and finally happened upon it and left Facebook to do it. "

Mary Lou Jepsen

" Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent. "

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" Gee, I am a complete Luddite when it comes to computers, I can barely log on! "

Jonathan Shapiro

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" I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark. "

Stephen Hawking

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Richard P. Feynman

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" My first computers were a Timex Sinclair and an Apple II. "

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