3 December 2020 Tim O'Reilly We’re entering a new world in which data may be more important than software.
3 December 2020 Donald Knuth People who are more than casually interested in computers should have at least some idea of what the underlying hardware is like. Otherwise the programs they write will be pretty weird.
3 December 2020 Thabo Mbeki Many of our own people here in this country do not ask about computers, telephones and television sets. They ask – when will we get a road to our village.
3 December 2020 Rick Boucher I actually use a computer a lot. I have three computers that I use on a regular basis – one is on my desk top in my Washington office, another is at home, and I have my laptop that I use when I’m travelling.
3 December 2020 Bill Budge 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.
3 December 2020 Lisa Loeb When I grew up we had gym at school, two or three dance classes after school, ice skating lessons, and all sorts of sports at our finger tips. We weren’t glued to computers because they didn’t exist, so being active was all we knew.
3 December 2020 Jack Kilby 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.
3 December 2020 Jim Clark The Internet is not just one thing, it’s a collection of things – of numerous communications networks that all speak the same digital language.
3 December 2020 Philip Emeagwali Because I believe that humans are computers, I conjectured that computers, like people, can have left- and right-handed versions.
3 December 2020 Bruce Schneier People don’t understand computers. Computers are magical boxes that do things. People believe what computers tell them.
3 December 2020 Colin Greenwood 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.
3 December 2020 Jack Wagner We all grew up, our grandmothers and mothers had about three channels to watch, so we watched those soaps and now, a generation has grown up with the Internet and computers and video games.
3 December 2020 Edsger Dijkstra The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.
3 December 2020 Timothy Murphy While the recent addition of the National Guard providing a support role manning computers and cameras has allowed more Border Patrol agents to work the field, more agents are still needed.
3 December 2020 Brian Eno The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.
3 December 2020 Jonathan Shapiro Gee, I am a complete Luddite when it comes to computers, I can barely log on!
3 December 2020 Christopher Plummer I’m too old-fashioned to use a computer. I’m too old-fashioned to use a quill.
3 December 2020 Don Bluth If the machines can take the drudgery out of it and just leave us with the joy of drawing, then that’s the best of both worlds – and I’ll use those computers!
3 December 2020 Herbert Simon I don’t care how big and fast computers are, they’re not as big and fast as the world.
3 December 2020 Marc Andreessen Google is working on self-driving cars, and they seem to work. People are so bad at driving cars that computers don’t have to be that good to be much better.
3 December 2020 Steve Coogan I am of the very last generation who didn’t have computers at school. As we grow old we’ll become something of an aberration.
3 December 2020 Perry Farrell I’m looking to evolve the concept of the new renaissance artist, taking the world by storm through the art of public display and demonstration, with technical savvy, using cell phones and computers.
3 December 2020 Niklas Zennstrom If you could utilize the resources of the end users’ computers, you could do things much more efficiently.
3 December 2020 Tim Berners-Lee We could say we want the Web to reflect a vision of the world where everything is done democratically. To do that, we get computers to talk with each other in such a way as to promote that ideal.
3 December 2020 Craig Bruce It’s hardware that makes a machine fast. It’s software that makes a fast machine slow.
3 December 2020 Eric Avery I started getting into Internet technologies and computers. I wasn’t especially interested in being a musician, but I wound up finding my way back to being interested in music through computers.
3 December 2020 Nick Park We can do things that we never could before. Stop-motion lets you build tiny little worlds, and computers make that world even more believable.
