“There's all these ways to instantly communicate - cars, computers, telephone and transportation - and even with all that, it's so hard to find people and have an honest communication with them.”

“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.”

“Diaspora starts about a thousand years from now. Most of human civilisation has moved inside computers essentially, a major branch of our descendants consists of conscious software.”

“Before computers, telephone lines and television connect us, we all share the same air, the same oceans, the same mountains and rivers. We are all equally responsible for protecting them.”

“Computers, like automobiles and airplanes, do only what people tell them to do.”

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

“What's happened with society is that we have created these devices, computers, which already can register and process huge amounts of information, which is a significant fraction of the amount of information that human beings themselves, as a species, can process.”

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

“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.”

“We can just assume they have much more and powerful, more advanced technology, all the new computers, everything could be much more easier and help them to build much more and many more nuclear weapons.”

“We have an epidemic of sexual predators following our children, whether it be on the computers, whether it be in our public parks, whether it be in the workplace, or even our schools.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Everyone has this perception that the bloggers, they say horrible things about you and they hide behind their computers where you can't see them.”

“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.”

“It was used for decades to describe talented computer enthusiasts, people whose skill at using computers to solve technical problems and puzzles was - and is - respected and admired by others possessing similar technical skills.”

“People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They're wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster.”

“Kids today are smarter than we ever were. And they've got computers, too, which is awesome. They're scary to me.”

“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.”

“Theaters are always going to be around, and doing fine. With computers and technology, we're becoming more and more secluded from each other. And the movie theater is one of the last places where we can still gather and experience something together. I don't think the desire for that magic will ever go away.”

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