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

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" I've been programming computers since elementary school, where they taught us, and I stuck with computer science through high school and college. "

" Right at the start, when I was about 13 or 14, I only had an Amiga 500 Plus running a bit of tracker software called OctaMED. My brother was big into his computers, and when he moved up to a proper PC, I took charge of the Amiga. "

" Sci-fi films are the epic films of the day because we can no longer put 10,000 extras in the scene - but we can draw thousands of aliens with computers. "

William Shatner

" I was afraid of the internet... because I couldn't type. "

" The capacity of computers is doubling every eight months. It's exponential development. I think it's a real threat, actually, that a computer one day will be more intelligent than us. "

David Lagercrantz

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

Joseph B. Wirthlin

" I don't look at computers as opponents. For me it is much more interesting to beat humans. "

" 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. "

" I didn't know much about computers. I still worked on a manual Olivetti typewriter. "

" While the recent addition of the National Guard providing a support role manning computers and cameras has allowed more Border Patrol agents to work the field, more agents are still needed. "

" Whatever they do, criminals and non-criminals act in particular ways. Some writers, for instance, use computers, others pen and paper. Some write in the morning, some at night. Each writer has a distinct style, with variations in grammar, sentence structure, and voice. "

" I happen to think that computers are the most important thing to happen to musicians since the invention of cat-gut which was a long time ago. "

" Technology has forever changed the world we live in. We're online, in one way or another, all day long. Our phones and computers have become reflections of our personalities, our interests, and our identities. They hold much that is important to us. "

" And my real enemy is not to hold the specimen sterile, but it's the lighting. The light is our real enemy. So we have to work with very very poor lighting. But we can increase the light with computers. "

Lennart Nilsson

" When I was a teenager in the late 30's and early 40's, electronics wasn't a word. You were interested in radio if you were interested in electronics. "

" 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. "

" A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing. "

" Technological developments are changing the way we live, and there is much talk of digitalisation and the disruptive business models enabled by smart phones, tablets, computers, and the 'Internet of things.' "

" 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

" Google did a great job hacking the Web to create search - and then monetizing search with advertising. And Apple did a great job humanizing hardware and software so that formerly daunting computers and applications could become consumer-friendly devices - even a lifestyle brand. "

Douglas Rushkoff

" Well, I had a lot of help from my father with the soldering and so on, and he was very good at math and was fascinated with computers, and so I was fortunate enough to have a bunch of exposure going all the way back to high school - this was in the 1960s. "

" When I was 8 or 9, I started using bulletin board systems, which was the precursor to the Internet, where you'd dial into... a shared system and shared computers. I've had an email address since the late '80s, when I was 8 or 9 years old, and then I got on the Internet in '93 when it was first starting out. "

" There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark. "

Stephen Hawking

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

Philip Emeagwali

" The computer is not, in our opinion, a good model of the mind, but it is as the trumpet is to the orchestra - you really need it. And so, we have very massive simulations in computers because the problem is, of course, very complex. "

" My first synthesizer was the VCS3. I got it in Bristol in the late Sixties, long before Pink Floyd used them. I had to sell an acoustic guitar and an old reel-to-reel tape recorder to raise the money. You can do fantastic things with modern computers, but you cannot use them in the same intuitive, spontaneous way you can a VCS3. "

Jean-Michel Jarre

" I guarantee you, yoga will compete with computers, music, sports, automobiles, the drug industry. Yoga will take over the world! "

Bikram Choudhury

" 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 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

" 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. "