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" There were no PCs when I started programming on computers. "

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" Men and machines are good at different things. People form plans and make decisions in complicated situations. We are less good at making sense of enormous amounts of data. Computers are exactly the opposite: they excel at efficient data processing but struggle to make basic judgments that would be simple for any human. "

" Computers do the calculating to allow people to transform the world. "

" Diaspora starts about a thousand years from now. Most of human civilisation has moved inside computers; essentially, a major branch of our descendants consists of conscious software. "

" 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. "

" Starting early and getting girls on computers, tinkering and playing with technology, games and new tools, is extremely important for bridging the gender divide that exists now in computer science and in technology. "

Beth Simone Noveck

" Don't try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead. "

" Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done. "

" We've got to be delivering young people, and people that are getting reeducated, people who are getting reemployed, into the marketplace with skills to work together, to understand computers, and to be able to be a part of that 21st century economy. "

Ann McLane Kuster

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

" The idea that so many kids eat rubbish and sit on computers all day long appals me and getting them into sport is a major way of getting them off computers and leading healthier lives. "

Kirsty Gallacher

" Computers and the Internet have made it really easy to rant. It's made everyone overly opinionated. "

" 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. "

" We want the digital world to bend to your physical life, your real emotional life as a person, and we don't want you to bend to computers. "

" Computers are still technology because we are still wrestling with it: it's still being invented; we're still trying to work out how it works. There's a world of game interaction to come that you or I wouldn't recognise. It's time for the machines to disappear. The computer's got to disappear into all of the things we use. "

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

" Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months. "

" It's hardware that makes a machine fast. It's software that makes a fast machine slow. "

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

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

" Perhaps one day we will have machines that can cope with approximate task descriptions, but in the meantime, we have to be very prissy about how we tell computers to do things. "

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" When I grew up we had gym at school, two or three dance classes after school, ice skating lessons, and all sorts of sports at our finger tips. We weren't glued to computers because they didn't exist, so being active was all we knew. "

" In the practical world of computing, it is rather uncommon that a program, once it performs correctly and satisfactorily, remains unchanged forever. "

" Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will help the inner migration, the opting out of reality. Reality is no longer going to be the stuff out there, but the stuff inside your head. It's going to be commercial and nasty at the same time. "

" The computer is a moron. "

" One thing's for sure, in the war between freedom and fear, our side is going to have better t-shirts. "

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

" We carry around computers in our pockets. Many people barely use them as phones. We use them as computers. If you think about the future, when you're traveling around, it's great to have a lightweight, small form factor. "