“Comic books aren't nerdy. You'd have to be an idiot to think computers are nerdy.”
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“We've been working now with computers and education for 30 years, computers in developing countries for 20 years, and trying to make low-cost machines for 10 years. This is not a sudden turn down the road.”
“My e-mail address is actually my wife's e-mail address. I actually hate computers.”
“Computers are scary. They're nightmares to fix, lose our stuff, and, on occasion, they crash, producing the blue screen of death. Steve Jobs knew this. He knew that computers were bulky and hernia-inducing and Darth Vader black. He understood the value of declarative design.”
“I like computers. I like the Internet. It's a tool that can be used. But don't be misled into thinking that these technologies are anything other than aspects of a degenerate economic system.”
“And it's here and it's ready and we can really revolutionize the way we educate our children with tablet computers, and I'm committed to doing whatever I can to speaking to whomever I can to send this signal - to pound this message home. Now is the time.”
“I don't look at computers as opponents. For me it is much more interesting to beat humans.”
“I've never been much of a computer guy at least in terms of playing with computers. Actually until I was about 11 I didn't use a computer for preparing for games at all. I was playing a bit online, was using the chess club mainly. Now, obviously, the computer is an important tool for me preparing for my games.”
“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.”
“Eventually, I believe, current attempts to understand the mind by analogy with man-made computers that can perform superbly some of the same external tasks as conscious beings will be recognized as a gigantic waste of time.”
“It is an interesting fact that during my tour I was never allowed access to computers, radios, or anything else that I might damage through curiosity, or perhaps something more sinister.”
“People are on their computers more than watching TV, because you can only watch voyeur TV, which is basically what reality shows are, for so long.”
“After a semester or so, my infatuation with computers burnt out as quickly as it had begun.”
“If I was designing a web site for elementary school children, I might have a much higher percentage of older computers with outdated browsers since keeping up with browser and hardware technology has not traditionally been a strong point of most elementary schools.”
“I have three brothers and they're all into computers. They're all intellects. My mother would pay me a quarter a page to read a book and I couldn't make 50 cents. I just couldn't do it.”
“I am cursed with computers something always goes wrong.”
“Kids are finding out about the potential for discovery online from other sources many of them have computers at home, for instance, or their friends have them.”
“I realized that I loved using computers to create something, but being an architect just wasn't going to keep me interested. The idea of a life spent obsessing over bathroom details for an Upper East Side penthouse was pretty depressing.”
“Computers are hierarchical. We have a desktop and hierarchical files which have to mean everything.”
“They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.”
“Nowadays shots are created in post-production, on computers. It's not really photography.”
“People don't understand computers. Computers are magical boxes that do things. People believe what computers tell them.”
“So a more sensible thing it seemed to me was to go to Silicon Valley and be pushing on the technology companies to accelerate the use of audio and music in computers.”
“Interactive computers and software will, I think, provide a less costly method of doing some kinds of inquiry, in knowledge acquisition and even reasoning and interaction.”