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" Why does everyone think the future is space helmets, silver foil, and talking like computers, like a bad episode of Star Trek? "

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Neil Gershenfeld

" I just think people have a lot of fiction. But, you know, I mean, the real story of Facebook is just that we've worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded. "

Mark Zuckerberg

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

" 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. "

" I've always been into computers. When I was getting out of high school and forming my identity musically, all of it was really coming into the fold, computers and drum machines. It felt like, you know, I'm in the right place at the right time. I liked the collision. "

" So technologies, whether it is a telephone or an iPhone, computers in general or automobiles, television even, all individualize us. We all sit in front of our iPhones and communicating but are we really communicating? "

Henry Mintzberg

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

" At our computer club, we talked about it being a revolution. Computers were going to belong to everyone, and give us power, and free us from the people who owned computers and all that stuff. "

" Computers are hierarchical. We have a desktop and hierarchical files which have to mean everything. "

" Even in the developing parts of the world, kids take to computers like fish to water. "

Nicholas Negroponte

" Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who's going to build. "

" The whole aesthetics of computers very much feeds into my OCD. They fill my head with obsessionalities and my actions become very repetitive. It seems quite inimical to the dreamy state out of which fiction comes which seems so much less causally repetitive than the way one works on computers. "

" I use many different gadgets connected with computers; I use PCs, laptops and a Palm Pilot. I also use the Internet to visit websites, especially within Polish-language Internet. I usually go to political discussion groups and sites - of course, as I use my real name, people never believe that they are chatting with me! "

" 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. "

" I got interested in computers and how they could be enslaved to the megalomaniac impulses of a teenager. "

" I did not grow up around computers, so technology was not a tool used every day in my household. I was drawn to computer science due to the creative nature of programming and the technology focus. "

Kimberly Bryant

" I'm still that little girl who lisped and sat in the back of the car and threw vegetables at the back of her head when we drove home from the market. That never goes. "

" There is a real danger that computers will develop intelligence and take over. We urgently need to develop direct connections to the brain so that computers can add to human intelligence rather than be in opposition. "

Stephen Hawking

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

" As a kid, I was always into art at the same time as computers, and eventually I realised I was making more interesting stuff with my keyboard than with my hands. I really enjoyed modifying computer games more than playing them, so that got me into programming. "

" We went from a world where almost nobody knew anything about computers to a world where almost all of us are computer geeks for a huge fraction of our day. And I'd like to see that happen with the digital world of biological molecules, too. "

George M. Church

" The future of filmmaking is to make the canvas bigger, something you can't enjoy on your phones or computers. "

Sidharth Malhotra

" Access to computers and the Internet has become a basic need for education in our society. "

" My poor children have been the subject of all of my experiments. We're still doing what I call 'Amish summers' where I turn off all electronics and pack away all their computers and stuff and watch them scream for a while until they settle down into, like, an electronic-free summer. "

" Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us. "

" I'm trying to get through life without really knowing about computers, but I don't know if I am going to make it. "

" Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software. "

Arthur C. Clarke

" Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living. "

Nicholas Negroponte

" Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers - organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative - if we don't solve these security problems, then people will hold back. "

" I like computers. I like the Internet. It's a tool that can be used. But don't be misled into thinking that these technologies are anything other than aspects of a degenerate economic system. "