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.
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.
The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.
If net neutrality goes away, it will fundamentally change everything about the Internet.
As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.
Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn.
We're going to be able to ask our computers to monitor things for us, and when certain conditions happen, are triggered, the computers will take certain actions and inform us after the fact.
This is what customers pay us for - to sweat all these details so it's easy and pleasant for them to use our computers. We're supposed to be really good at this. That doesn't mean we don't listen to customers, but it's hard for them to tell you what they want when they've never seen anything remotely like it.
I just think people have a lot of fiction. But, you know, I mean, the real story of Facebook is just that we've worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.