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" Silicon Valley is a great place for Bitcoin, since everyone understands computers, and there are lots of libertarians running around. "

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" The iPhone is made on a global scale, and it blends computers, the Internet, communications, and artificial intelligence in one blockbuster, game-changing innovation. It reflects so many of the things that our contemporary world is good at - indeed, great at. "

" Computers are great tools, but they need to be applied to the physical world. "

" 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. "

" Theaters are always going to be around, and doing fine. With computers and technology, we're becoming more and more secluded from each other. And the movie theater is one of the last places where we can still gather and experience something together. I don't think the desire for that magic will ever go away. "

Wolfgang Petersen

" Yeah, computers are going to take over the programming business because they have become so fast recently that they can solve the Halting Problem in five seconds flat. "

" Computers have virtually replaced tape recorders. "

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

" I started on an Apple II, which I had bought at the very end of 1978 for half of my annual income. I made $4,500 a year, and I spent half of it on the computer. "

" With all the abundance we have of computers and computing, what is scarce is human attention and time. "

" Regardless of how it's done, transaction costs will continue to plummet as computers get more powerful. Low transaction costs are a wonderful thing if you're in the transaction business. They're wonderful for consumers too, making it cheaper and easier to buy things and creating new things to buy. "

Nathan Myhrvold

" Music is composed on computers and other electronic equipment; producers don't want to spend money on orchestra. "

" 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. "

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

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

" For short term relaxation, I take a hot tub. It's my best way to unblock writers' block, too. For a bit longer relaxation, I enjoy camping. Just being in the wilderness, with no phones or computers or anything I have to do really refreshes my spirit. "

" There's no other major item most of us own that is as confusing, unpredictable and unreliable as our personal computers. "

" We can do things that we never could before. Stop-motion lets you build tiny little worlds, and computers make that world even more believable. "

" In the developed world, we are surrounded by electronics - from the computers on our desks to the smart phones in our pockets to the thermostats in our homes to our data in the virtual cloud. "

" I've always been interested in technology, but specifically how we can use machines to engage the imagination. I started using computers when I was young and was fascinated by creating rules and instructions that allow a computer to engage in a dialogue with humans. The stories found in the data all around us can do just that. "

" Musicians and journalists are the canaries in the coalmine, but, eventually, as computers get more and more powerful, it will kill off all middle-class professions. "

" 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

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

Neil Gershenfeld

" You have to wait for people to program you. The only difference is the amount of people that you're going to reach but that's going to even out in the next two or three years anyway. Computers are being bought faster than televisions right now. "

" It's been my policy to view the Internet not as an 'information highway', but as an electronic asylum filled with babbling loonies. "

" The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I'm talking about an organic computer - about biological substances that can function like a semiconductor. "

" I honestly believe that people sit behind their computers and just get really brave. "

" 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

" When the first computers started to come in, we tried to digitalize the seismological equipment. "

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

" Those who believe that health is a commodity, on par with cars or computers, fail to grasp the basic economic lesson that health is very vulnerable to exposure to the markets, not least due to the profound asymmetries in power between the providers and consumers. "