Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who’s going to build.
The computer is a moron.
Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
The power of the computer is starting to spread.
Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else’s patent.
I was afraid of the internet… because I couldn’t type.
What I was proud of was that I used very few parts to build a computer that could actually speak words on a screen and type words on a keyboard and run a programming language that could play games. And I did all this myself.
I am not the only person who uses his computer mainly for the purpose of diddling with his computer.
Shareware tends to combine the worst of commercial software with the worst of free software.
When I write software, I know that it will fail, either due to my own mistake, or due to some other cause.
Man, I don’t want to have nothing to do with computers. I don’t want the government in my business.
We demand privacy, yet we glorify those that break into computers.
If you like overheads, you’ll love PowerPoint.
In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word ‘frustration’.
Even when I work with computers, with high technology, I always try to put in the touch of the hand.
I do two things. I design mobile computers and I study brains.
Computers have virtually replaced tape recorders.
You couldn’t have fed the ‘50s into a computer and come out with the ’60s.
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.
Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs founded Apple Inc, which set the computing world on its ear with the Macintosh in 1984.
I just bought a Mac to help me design the next Cray.
A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you.
The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.
I got interested in computers and how they could be enslaved to the megalomaniac impulses of a teenager.
Using social media to hurt and destroy is callous, acted out by cowards hiding behind computers. My advice is to ignore negativity. Focus on the love around.
