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

“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's my education in computers, right there this is the whole thing, everything I took out of a book.”

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

“The computer is a moron.”

“Over the eons I've been a fan of, and sucker for, each latest automated system to 'simplify' and 'bring order to' my life. Very early on this led me to the beautiful-and-doomed Lotus Agenda for my DOS computers, and Actioneer for the early Palm.”

“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.”

“It's interesting to see what people are saying about me. I like keep up with the latest rumors! A while back there was a rumor that I was going to do a film with Demi Moore about the takeover of Commodore computers!”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“Well, my wife always says to me, and I think it's true, it's very difficult for us to understand the Elizabethan understanding and enjoyment and perception of form as it is to say... it would be for them to understand computers or going to the moon or something.”

“Computers have virtually replaced tape recorders.”

“I'm a very simple person. I don't use computers.”

“It seems like everything that we see perceived in the brain before we actually use our own eyes, that everything we see is coming through computers or machines and then is being input in our brain cells. So that really worries me.”

“We're getting so pulled in by computers and technology, and our kids have their face in the computers all day. The human relationship is being diminished by this.”

“The guy who knows about computers is the last person you want to have creating documentation for people who don't understand computers.”

“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.”

“One of the biggest challenges we had in the first decade was not that many people had personal computers. There weren't that many people to sell to, and it was hard to identify them.”

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