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" 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. "

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" I think I was lucky to come of age in a place and time - the American South in the 1960s and '70s - when the machine hadn't completely taken over life. The natural world was still the world, and machines - TV, telephone, cars - were still more or less ancillary, and computers were unheard of in everyday life. "

" Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest. "

" When I was a kid, I played 'Super Mario Bros' and 'Megaman 2' and '3' for hours and hours, trying to convince my mother they were good for me because they helped my hand-eye coordination. They influenced a whole generation of people to make computers what they are now, through problem-solving and so on. "

" When I was a kid, I really liked playing chess, which is pretty geeky; I just enjoyed it - thinking, exercising my mind. And I found computers to be like an eight-hour day chess game. "

" I wish people would turn off their computers, go outside, talk to people, touch people, lick people, enjoy each other's company and smell each other on the rump. "

" In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word 'frustration'. "

" I closely follow everything about user interface or human-computer interface: technology that makes computers closer to the way the human being actually functions. "

Francois-Henri Pinault

" There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home. "

" Before computers, you'd start designing using shapes of cubes. Now I can start with something like a handkerchief, an object that doesn't have strong inside and outside boundaries or much closed volume. "

" We're getting so pulled in by computers and technology, and our kids have their face in the computers all day. The human relationship is being diminished by this. "

" Computers have virtually replaced tape recorders. "

" 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. "

" I look like a geeky hacker, but I don't know anything about computers. "

" In the past, missionaries have traveled to far countries with the message of the gospel - with great hardship and often with the loss of life. In contrast, we can reach millions instantly from the comfort of our homes by merely hitting the 'send' button on our computers, or with iPads, or phones. "

" I'm pretty into computers. I used to be a lot more into it when I was younger. "

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

" The diverse threats we face are increasingly cyber-based. Much of America's most sensitive data is stored on computers. We are losing data, money, and ideas through cyber intrusions. This threatens innovation and, as citizens, we are also increasingly vulnerable to losing our personal information. "

" 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. "

" I have a suspicion that the politicians' revival of the old behaviourist ideas and techniques will be helped and reinforced by a powerful ally - the machines we have built. The computers. "

" I'm a very methodical writer. Before computers, I used reams of paper and stacks of index cards. "

" I programmed computers every day. And one of my favourite apps we built was this thing called Awesome Updater, that all it did is send you a tweet randomly that was like, 'Yo, you're awesome.' "

" Every one of today's smartphones has thousands of times more processing power than the computers that guided astronauts to the moon. "

" Computers are very expensive and they need power, and that can be a problem in Africa. "

" 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. "

Nathan Myhrvold

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

" With faster Internet and better computers, you'd better believe we're creating and consuming more digital data. "

Peter Diamandis

" I don't read books. "

" 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. "

" Desktop computers - boxes inside boxes - began appearing in those cubicles in the mid-eighties, electrical cords curling on the floor like so many ropes. "

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