“At our computer club, we talked about it being a revolution. Computers were going to belong to everyone, and give us power, and free us from the people who owned computers and all that stuff.”
Computers changed everything, and they did it fast. These quotes track the digital revolution from early wonder to modern dependence, with observations from programmers, technologists, and people still trying to figure out why their printer will not work.
“Computers have virtually replaced tape recorders.”
“At our computer club, we talked about it being a revolution. Computers were going to belong to everyone, and give us power, and free us from the people who owned computers and all that stuff.”
“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.”
“Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading manuals without the 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.”
“Beatbullying's 'The Big March 2012' is such a brilliant campaign and I am very proud to be a part of it. I have been a victim of cyber bullying myself and I know firsthand just how hurtful it can be. People think that they can hide behind computers and send nasty and hurtful comments to people, and this is wrong.”
“I'm a very simple person. I don't use computers.”
“Man-made computers are limited in their performance by finite processing speed and memory. So, too, the cosmic computer is limited in power by its age and the finite speed of light.”
“One of the problems with computers, particularly for the older people, is they were befuddled by them, and the computers have gotten better. They have gotten easier to use. They have gotten less expensive. The software interfaces have made things a lot more accessible.”
“The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.”
“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.”
“There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.”
“The great advance of personal computers was not the computing power per se but the fact that it brought it right to your face, that you had control over it, that were confronted with it and could steer it.”
“I've always been at the intersection of computers and whatever they can revolutionize.”
“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.”