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" I've tried word processors, but I think I'm too old a dog to use one. "

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" I like computers as a tool. I like them as an instrument. I think they're just pretty. "

" The idea behind digital computers may be explained by saying that these machines are intended to carry out any operations which could be done by a human computer. "

" Yes, I was a big math and computer geek, that's true. I was driven by the scholastic side of things. For me, it was all about what I could do with math and computers. "

" There is a difference between the stuff that people put online themselves, like pictures and their trips and flights and meals they've eaten, than the stuff that they don't realize is also going into foreign computers. Like, for example, copies of your emails or every single online search you ever do, 'cause all that is being recorded as well. "

" Coding is like writing, and we live in a time of the new industrial revolution. What's happened is that maybe everybody knows how to use computers, like they know how to read, but they don't know how to write. "

" I think that what computers have done is just disastrous to the language. "

" When I got out of coaching, I had taught a class at the University of California, an extension class on football for fans. I was looking for tools. I was showing them films. I was going to write a textbook. Trip Hawkins came to me about making it a game for computers. "

" Computer science is one of the worst things that ever happened to either computers or to science. "

Neil Gershenfeld

" We think of computers as smart and powerful machines. But your goldfish is smarter. "

" People assume that computers will do everything that humans do. Not good. People are different from each other and they are all really different from computers. "

" I worked at a local country club that I never belonged to. I did random tasks in the pro shop and supposed to be in charge of the register, but that didn't go so well. They quickly realized I was better with people, not computers. "

" The form of computers has never been important, with speed and performance being the only things that mattered. "

" For computer communications, computers talk in little bursts. They're not continuous like speech. "

" I've never been much of a computer guy at least in terms of playing with computers. Actually until I was about 11 I didn't use a computer for preparing for games at all. I was playing a bit online, was using the chess club mainly. Now, obviously, the computer is an important tool for me preparing for my games. "

" Computers are the most powerful tools that humanity has ever created. Yet, we treat them largely as a black box; as if it were an alien artifact that magically appeared on desks, in homes, and in our pockets. "

" 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 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

" Our computers have become windows through which we can gaze upon a world that is virtually without horizons or boundaries. "

Joseph B. Wirthlin

" People's computers are not getting more secure. They're getting more infected with viruses. They're getting more under the control of malware. "

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

" From cell phones to computers, quality is improving and costs are shrinking as companies fight to offer the public the best product at the best price. But this philosophy is sadly missing from our health-care insurance system. "

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

" People who are more than casually interested in computers should have at least some idea of what the underlying hardware is like. Otherwise the programs they write will be pretty weird. "

" Our lives sometimes depend on computers performing as predicted. "

Philip Emeagwali

" 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 will be able to do all the mundane tasks in our daily lives. "

" 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. "

Patrick Collison

" You can't have thousands of cars without good computers on the electric grid. "

" 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. "