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" You couldn't have fed the '50s into a computer and come out with the '60s. "

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" There's my education in computers, right there; this is the whole thing, everything I took out of a book. "

" The trick with computers I think, is to approach old and new things with the same reverence as you would like your favourite chair and not be seduced by the constant innovation otherwise you never do anything. "

Colin Greenwood

" As far as solving India's problems with technology is concerned, I think there are some wrong assumptions in making computing work at the grassroots. We need to go beyond the notion of technology being all about computers. "

" I think we are at the very beginning of high changes, not only in terms of digital film, but in the way the movies will be screened, whether they'll be screened on phones, on computers - on everything. "

Michel Hazanavicius

" One of the biggest challenges we had in the first decade was not that many people had personal computers. There weren't that many people to sell to, and it was hard to identify them. "

" I got into computers back in the early '80s, so it was a natural progression of learning about e-mail in the mid-'80s and getting into the Internet when it opened up in the early '90s. "

" 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. "

" It's a misconception that people over 65 do not use computers. They love them; they are always consulting Dr Google. "

" When a monk takes a vow of silence, is he still allowed to post messages on the Internet? Chances are God won't find out. Being ancient, God probably can't work computers. He holds the mouse gingerly, like it's made of fine china. "

Charlie Brooker

" We need a lot more technically literate people. The computers are the tools that are going to solve essentially all problems, and the people who can use them better will be more effective. "

" By the time I was a senior in high school, I knew I wanted to move to Silicon Valley and learn more about computers and the Internet. I just fell in love with technology and the potential of everything the Internet had to offer. "

" The basic idea of Games With a Purpose is that we are taking a problem that computers cannot yet solve, and we are getting people to solve it for us while they are playing a game. "

" 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

" 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. "

" My e-mail address is actually my wife's e-mail address. I actually hate computers. "

" 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

" The big question society will have to answer is whether it wants computers thinking like humans. "

" What's happened with society is that we have created these devices, computers, which already can register and process huge amounts of information, which is a significant fraction of the amount of information that human beings themselves, as a species, can process. "

" I'm encouraging kids to use computers at their own pace to build aspirations. "

" 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 grew up loving computers and math, actually. I also loved English literature and French, but I became obsessed with computers when the Apple II was coming out. "

" I thought of computers as very low class. I thought of myself as a pure mathematician and was interested in partial differential equations and topology and things like that. "

Whitfield Diffie

" I'm pretty much a dinosaur in the studio. I like things hand-drawn, even today. The story artists use Cintiqs, but I'm the only person who hasn't completely converted to computers. I like the Cintiq, but there's something about the raw emotional power of using paper and pencil. "

" Early AI was mainly based on logic. You're trying to make computers that reason like people. The second route is from biology: You're trying to make computers that can perceive and act and adapt like animals. "

Geoffrey Hinton

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

" Maintain yourself and everything maintains itself around you. "

" One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.' "

Norman Ralph Augustine

" A lot of journalists like to suck up to celebrities, and then as soon as they're a safe distance away at their computers, they take shots. But that's the way society has become, especially in pop culture. "

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