Computers

Modern equipment invariably has a cloud component that allows the data collected to be analyzed by state-of-the-art algorithms running on unfathomably powerful computers all across the world.

Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world.

I like stuff designed by dead people. The old designers. They always got it right because they didn't have to grow up with computers. All of the people that made the spoon and the dishes and the vacuum cleaner didn't have microprocessors and stuff. You could do a good design back then.

The most compelling reason for most people to buy a computer for the home will be to link it to a nationwide communications network. We're just in the beginning stages of what will be a truly remarkable breakthrough for most people - as remarkable as the telephone.

Man, I don't want to have nothing to do with computers. I don't want the government in my business.

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

Even when I work with computers, with high technology, I always try to put in the touch of the hand.

I'm a '70s mom, and my daughter is a '90s mom. I know a lot of women my age who are real computer freaks.

Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

Yet in this global economy, no jobs are safe. High-speed Internet connections and low-cost, skilled labor overseas are an explosive combination.

As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.

Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else's patent.

Shareware tends to combine the worst of commercial software with the worst of free software.

I was afraid of the internet... because I couldn't type.

The future lies in designing and selling computers that people don't realize are computers at all.

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.

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.

What we did not imagine was a Web of people, but a Web of documents.

The internet is not for sissies.

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.