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.

Because I believe that humans are computers, I conjectured that computers, like people, can have left- and right-handed versions.

I am thankful the most important key in history was invented. It's not the key to your house, your car, your boat, your safety deposit box, your bike lock or your private community. It's the key to order, sanity, and peace of mind. The key is 'Delete.'

Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking.

Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

The Internet: transforming society and shaping the future through chat.

I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.

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.

Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living.

Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software.

Even in the developing parts of the world, kids take to computers like fish to water.

If you like overheads, you'll love PowerPoint.

There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.

Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who's going to build.

When I write software, I know that it will fail, either due to my own mistake, or due to some other cause.

Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us.

In the practical world of computing, it is rather uncommon that a program, once it performs correctly and satisfactorily, remains unchanged forever.

I just bought a Mac to help me design the next Cray.

Computers have virtually replaced tape recorders.

The internet is not for sissies.

Right now, computers, which are supposed to be our servant, are oppressing us.

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.

People are so bad at driving cars that computers don't have to be that good to be much better. Any time you stand in line at the D.M.V. and look around, you're like, Oh, my God, I wish all these people were replaced by computer drivers.

A calculator is a tool for humans to do math more quickly and accurately than they could ever do by hand; similarly, AI computers are tools for us to perform tasks too difficult or expensive for us to do on our own, such as analyzing large data sets or keeping up to date on medical research.

The only legitimate use of a computer is to play games.

Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.

A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.

I just became one with my browser software.

If you could utilize the resources of the end users' computers, you could do things much more efficiently.

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

One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.'

Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service. The iMac is not just the color or translucence or the shape of the shell. The essence of the iMac is to be the finest possible consumer computer in which each element plays together.

I wouldn't know how to find eBay on the computer if my life depended on it.

The Internet is a powerful way to make lots of money... But we are not going to buy Yahoo!

I'm too old-fashioned to use a computer. I'm too old-fashioned to use a quill.

The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.

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.

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.

When people think about computer science, they imagine people with pocket protectors and thick glasses who code all night.

The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.

The Internet is not just one thing, it's a collection of things - of numerous communications networks that all speak the same digital language.

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

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

I do two things. I design mobile computers and I study brains.

Your computer needn't be the first thing your see in the morning and the last thing you see at night.

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.

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

To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.

It's been my policy to view the Internet not as an 'information highway', but as an electronic asylum filled with babbling loonies.

We're entering a new world in which data may be more important than software.

A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you.

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.

Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window.

What do we want our kids to do? Sweep up around Japanese computers?

People are so bad at driving cars that computers don't have to be that good to be much better. Any time you stand in line at the D.M.V. and look around, you're like, Oh, my God, I wish all these people were replaced by computer drivers.

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.

The power of the computer is starting to spread.

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.

Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.

Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs founded Apple Inc, which set the computing world on its ear with the Macintosh in 1984.

Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.

The new information technology... Internet and e-mail... have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications.

In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word 'frustration'.

No one ever said on their deathbed, 'Gee, I wish I had spent more time alone with my computer'.

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

Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers - organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative - if we don't solve these security problems, then people will hold back.

Computers may save time but they sure waste a lot of paper. About 98 percent of everything printed out by a computer is garbage that no one ever reads.

Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn.

The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.

It's hardware that makes a machine fast. It's software that makes a fast machine slow.

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.

Access to computers and the Internet has become a basic need for education in our society.

To err is human - and to blame it on a computer is even more so.

Software comes from heaven when you have good hardware.

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.

I am regularly asked what the average Internet user can do to ensure his security. My first answer is usually 'Nothing; you're screwed'.

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.

The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.

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

Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.

The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.

Modern people are only willing to believe in their computers, while I believe in myself.

If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.

You couldn't have fed the '50s into a computer and come out with the '60s.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding.

Computers in classrooms are the filmstrips of the 1990s.

The computer is a moron.

Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020.

Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months.

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.

Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.

I am not the only person who uses his computer mainly for the purpose of diddling with his computer.