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" In 1983, before computers came along, it wasn't easy to do electronic basslines and rhythms. "

Gillian Gilbert

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" If you like overheads, you'll love PowerPoint. "

" I detest computers. If you had a device like that 30 years ago that froze up constantly, misbehaved constantly, lost your information and screwed up when you needed it the most, it would have been laughable. "

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

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" I watch virtually no TV. All my screen time is computer time for me. When I'm not doing that I'm reading or talking to my friends who I got to know through computers. "

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" We're entering a new world in which data may be more important than software. "

" I'm not really gadget oriented. I'm not into technology or computers. I'm not good at interfacing with that sort of gear. "

" That was something that shaped my thinking regarding Estonia: the idea that we should be getting our young people to work with computers. "

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" Originally, I was in both software and in online computing. The first innovation really was sort of at that time that we're marrying the telephone and the computer so that people wouldn't have to drive to the computer center. We didn't have $1,000 computers. "

" People need to get out and do some more exercise, especially children who are stuck inside with computers. "

" Open-source encyclopedias such as Wikipedia and search engines such as Google and Bing, which people can tap into anytime and anywhere via computers and smart phones, put a world of knowledge at our fingertips at a lower cost than ever before. "

" Yet in this global economy, no jobs are safe. High-speed Internet connections and low-cost, skilled labor overseas are an explosive combination. "

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

" I loathe computers more and more, so I have one I can shut down and shelve like a book. "

" People are good at figuring out what's attractive, and computers are good at quickly searching and finding. You put them together, and bang! "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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" My mom was a biological illustrator for a time before computers replaced that job. "

Jeff Vandermeer

" I continue to meet people who have had their Web pages hijacked, their browsers corrupted, in some cases, their children exposed to inappropriate material from these dangerous programs hidden in their family computers. "

" I just bought a Mac to help me design the next Cray. "

" As a science fiction fan, I had always assumed that when computers supplemented our intelligence, it would be because we outsourced some of our memory to them. We would ask questions, and our machines would give oracular - or supremely practical - replies. "

" I had originally wanted to be a lawyer. Even when I went to college and majored in engineering, I still thought I'd get a law degree. Then I started taking electrical engineering classes where I saw some of the innovation happening around computers and solid-state technology in the mid '80s. "

Kimberly Bryant

" Computers get better faster than anything else ever. "

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" Software comes from heaven when you have good hardware. "

" People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They're wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster. "

" When Steve Jobs toured Xerox PARC and saw computers running the first operating system that used Windows and a mouse, he assumed he was looking at a new way to work a personal computer. He brought the concept back to Cupertino and created the Mac, then Bill Gates followed suit, and the rest is history. "

Douglas Rushkoff

" I had been doing MP3 players and handheld computers since 1990-1991, and so they sought me out because of my experience. And about 18 generations of iPod and three generations of iPhone later, I decided to leave Apple. "

" I have three brothers and they're all into computers. They're all intellects. My mother would pay me a quarter a page to read a book and I couldn't make 50 cents. I just couldn't do it. "

" After a semester or so, my infatuation with computers burnt out as quickly as it had begun. "

Eric Allin Cornell

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