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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

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" Computers will understand sarcasm before Americans do. "

Geoffrey Hinton

" 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. "

" 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 have become more friendly, understandable, and lots of years and thought have been put into developing software to convince people that they want and need a computer. "

Roberta Williams

" A lot of journalists like to suck up to celebrities, and then as soon as they're a safe distance away at their computers, they take shots. But that's the way society has become, especially in pop culture. "

" The way we live is changing. Each year, our free time shrinks a little more as computers clamor for an increasing percentage of our attention. "

" The trick with computers I think, is to approach old and new things with the same reverence as you would like your favourite chair and not be seduced by the constant innovation otherwise you never do anything. "

Colin Greenwood

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

" There has never been an unexpectedly short debugging period in the history of computers. "

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

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

Nicholas Negroponte

" I am not great at computers. If I were to try shopping through Google, I'd end up with 33 vests. "

" 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

" Computers can't find the unexpected, but people can when they eyeball the data. "

" 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. "

" It's hardware that makes a machine fast. It's software that makes a fast machine slow. "

" With our work at Kazaa, we began seeing growing broadband connections and more powerful computers and more streaming multimedia, and we saw that the traditional way of communicating by phone no longer made a lot of sense. "

Niklas Zennstrom

" Everyone has this perception that the bloggers, they say horrible things about you and they hide behind their computers where you can't see them. "

" Me and my wife watch laser discs, and I collect old computers. And one of my regular models is a 1993 computer with Windows 98 on it. I just love old technology, and I don't know what you would call that. I'm just stuck in 1991, '92. "

Shooter Jennings

" That's the new way - with computers, computers, computers. That's the way we can have the cell survive and get some new information in high resolution. We started about five years ago and, today, I think we have reached the target. "

Lennart Nilsson

" Over the eons I've been a fan of, and sucker for, each latest automated system to 'simplify' and 'bring order to' my life. Very early on this led me to the beautiful-and-doomed Lotus Agenda for my DOS computers, and Actioneer for the early Palm. "

" For me, 'The Brady Bunch' is just a part of the fabric of my career, but for a lot of people, that's it. "

Florence Henderson

" No one has any faith in the tape anymore - everyone just relies on computers and considers the hardrive to be the safest option, and I don't. I think an analog tape is something you can hold. "

" Fungible goods in economics can be extended and traded. So, half as much grain is half as much useful, but half a baby or half a computer is less useful than a whole baby or a whole computer, and we've been trying to make computers that work that way. "

Neil Gershenfeld

" The manufacture and running of all the world's computers, the toxicity of the hardware mountains that we currently dump on other countries; all this can be totted up on the environmental account of web-users and its authors. "

Tristram Stuart

" Computers make me totally blank out. "

" It is an interesting fact that during my tour I was never allowed access to computers, radios, or anything else that I might damage through curiosity, or perhaps something more sinister. "

Robert B. Laughlin

" It's important to be informed about issues like usability, reliability, security, privacy, and some of the inherent limitations of computers. "

Brian Kernighan

" 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. "