“The ownership of computers in the home is far less than the statistics show, because usually when the computer breaks down once, that is the end of it for a long, long time. They do not have the money or incentive to get the computer repaired.”

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

“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.”

“Lighter computers and lighter sensors would let you have more function in a given weight, which is very important if you are launching things into space, and you have to pay by the pound to put things there.”

“I get hired to hack into computers now and sometimes it's actually easier than it was years ago.”

“People who are more than casually interested in computers should have at least some idea of what the underlying hardware is like. Otherwise the programs they write will be pretty weird.”

“To me, there is something superbly symbolic in the fact that an astronaut, sent up as assistant to a series of computers, found that he worked more accurately and more intelligently than they. Inside the capsule, man is still in charge.”

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

“Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will help the inner migration, the opting out of reality. Reality is no longer going to be the stuff out there, but the stuff inside your head. It's going to be commercial and nasty at the same time.”

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

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

“Sci-fi films are the epic films of the day because we can no longer put 10,000 extras in the scene - but we can draw thousands of aliens with computers.”

“From computers to information technology to airplanes, it has been America's unique blend of republican government and free-market capitalism that has allowed us to surpass all other nations in history.”

“I take computers practically apart and put them back together. I have a supercomputer I built over the years out of different computers.”

“It was a huge challenge to learn digital painting well enough so that computers don't pop into mind when one sees one.”

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

“When they were done downloading all the information off each hard drive, they took all the computers, all the literature, and loaded everything into a big white truck and left.”

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

“There has never been an unexpectedly short debugging period in the history of computers.”

“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.”

“Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs.”