It was the summer of 1998. At that point, we were just scrounging around to find resources; we had stolen these computers from all over the department, sort of.
I was a nerd, growing up, I was really into computers and technology, and most of my friends were basically in that world as well.
I don’t think Apple would be making the computers, the iPhone, being the top electronics company it is, if Steve Jobs didn’t have some regrets over mistakes he made and learned to overcome them.
I built computers and stuff when I was a teenager and whatever.
The only way we can fly planes and use computers is because people were curious about their world and also skeptical about the things they were told to be immutable, so they figured out other ways of doing things.
Computers used to petrify me before I figured it was just a matter of getting used to them.
My mother worked for Confederation of Indian Industry, and Aptech Computers.
I know how to use computers. I was one of those guys on Myspace who had one of those fake hit counters.
The whole thought of a career with computers – given that hardly anybody even knew what they were – it wasn’t even a concept.
I started working at a point in history when digital computers were becoming mature, and before that, there were no such machines.
One thing about computers and iPhones is they’re making people mentally lazy.
I always wanted to be a pilot, though somewhere down the line switched to computers.
The thing that changed everything for me was the Firefox browser. I was pretty bad when it came to computers – I didn’t know how powerful the internet could be until I discovered tabbed browsing.
Traditionally computers have not been that good at interacting with people in ways that people feel natural interacting with.
I don’t really like encouraging people to go on the Internet too much, we’re constantly distracted with the Internet and computers.
Computers can see, and understand what people say via speech recognition.
Computers don’t usually have a sense of if you have a picture of something what is in that image. And if we can do a good job of understanding what is in an image, that can bring along a lot of new things you can do in applications.
I use the computers to maximize my efficiency and establish a baseline for my swing, but once I’m on the course, I don’t think about any of that. I just play.
When I was younger, I would look at a game with computers and still be fascinated by the possibilities.
There are hundreds of competitors in the direct marketing of computers. We have been very successful because of quality, price, service and the way we treat the customer.
I build computers.
When computers came online and people found out people weren’t mixing there was uproar, and outed. But now that hasn’t happened. People don’t seem to care.
A lot of the design courses in schools and colleges don’t incorporate very much making, and a lot of the making courses incorporate too much technology and computers.
Some of our best and unexpected discoveries have been born out of crises – from the Second World War, for example, came Alan Turing’s decoding machine, widely considered as the precursor to modern day computers and artificial intelligence.
We have got so caught up in an insular world that swings between our phones, our computers and our heads that we have forgotten to look out of the window, and say, ‘Hey! It’s raining.’
