People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They're wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster.
Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs.
Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs founded Apple Inc, which set the computing world on its ear with the Macintosh in 1984.
Shareware tends to combine the worst of commercial software with the worst of free software.
I happen to think that computers are the most important thing to happen to musicians since the invention of cat-gut which was a long time ago.
One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.'
Access to computers and the Internet has become a basic need for education in our society.
If you could utilize the resources of the end users' computers, you could do things much more efficiently.
In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word 'frustration'.
Nanotechnology will let us build computers that are incredibly powerful. We'll have more power in the volume of a sugar cube than exists in the entire world today.
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.
Modern people are only willing to believe in their computers, while I believe in myself.
The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.
The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do.
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.
When I write software, I know that it will fail, either due to my own mistake, or due to some other cause.
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.
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.
Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else's patent.
Even in the developing parts of the world, kids take to computers like fish to water.
Gee, I am a complete Luddite when it comes to computers, I can barely log on!
I got up with my wife, I sat down at the computer when she went to work, and I didn't stop until she got home.
The Internet is not just one thing, it's a collection of things - of numerous communications networks that all speak the same digital language.
Even when I work with computers, with high technology, I always try to put in the touch of the hand.
Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who's going to build.
I am regularly asked what the average Internet user can do to ensure his security. My first answer is usually 'Nothing you're screwed'.
Yet in this global economy, no jobs are safe. High-speed Internet connections and low-cost, skilled labor overseas are an explosive combination.
The future lies in designing and selling computers that people don't realize are computers at all.
The Internet is a powerful way to make lots of money... But we are not going to buy Yahoo!
Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020.
I'm too old-fashioned to use a computer. I'm too old-fashioned to use a quill.
I got interested in computers and how they could be enslaved to the megalomaniac impulses of a teenager.
What I try to do is factor in how people use computers, what people's problems are, and how these technologies can get applied to those problems. Then I try to direct the various product groups to act on this information.