Quotes About Computers

People's computers are not getting more secure. They're getting more infected with viruses. They're getting more under the control of malware.

I give Bill Gates an A for vision because, as a business person and a strategist, he's brilliant. His flaw is that his view is not informed by a humanistic or compassionate vision of how to make computers work for people.

It smelled of the past, of a time before computers, before information was "Googled" and "blogged." Before laptops and BlackBerries and all the other tools that

I do two things. I design mobile computers and I study brains.

Kids are taking PCs and the Internet to new heights. They're the ones that are designing the cutting-edge web sites.

My background was in graphic design, but when I was doing it, it was all hand-drawn stuff, not computers.

I've found that people who design computers don't know a lot about displays.

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

I see the Mac being a key part of Apple for the long term, and I see growth in the Mac for the long term.

I grew up with an Apple 2E - I had a deep, emotional attachment to that machine - and I loved doodling.

Jim chuckled. "All right. Listen, can you get me an uplink to the ship from there? I want a look at the BBS." Spock thought a moment. "That should be no problem. Wait a moment." His fingers danced over the keys. McCoy

People will not die. Isn't this the creed of the new culture? People will be absorbed in streams of information. I know nothing about this. Computers will die. They're dying in their present form. They're just about dead as distinct units.

As pessoas nao vão morrer. Não é esse o credo da nova cultura? As pessoas vão ser absorvidas em fluxos de informações. Não entendo nada disso. Os computadores vão morrer. Já estão morrendo na sua forma atual. Estão praticamente mortos como unidades distintas. Uma caixa, uma tela, um teclado. Eles estão se dissolvendo na textura da vida cotidiana. (...) Até a palavra computador parece retrógrada e burra.

I still respond to that thing you feel in an office, wearing a crisp suit and sensing the linked grids lap around you. It is all about the enfolding drone of the computers and fax machines. It is about the cell phones slotted in the desk chargers, the voice mail and e-mail—a sense of order and command reinforced by the office itself and the bronze tower that encases the office and by all the contact points that shimmer in the air somewhere.

In fact, my experiences as I was writing the 3:16 book weren't that different from writing computer books, although I wasn't using integral signs as much.

Apple didn't find their footing until Steve Jobs understood that people felt intimidated (internal problem) by computers and wanted a simpler interface with technology.

Well, the big products in electronics in the '50s were radio and television. The first big computers were just beginning to come in and represented the most logical market for us to work in.

I think I thought it would be important for electronics as we knew it then, but that was a much simpler business and electronics was mostly radio and television and the first computers.

But I'm so slow on it because I find it terribly hard writing blind on computers. The computer speaks to me, but it's just so slow, I'm so terribly slow using it.

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

Obviously it's the servers down again

When I'm not writing or tweaking my computer, I do embroidery. When I'm not plunging into the past, tweaking, or embroidering, I'm reading books about history, computers, or embroidery

Clark, that was the idea: small, independent routing computers.

Computers and the World of the Future,