“I use computers for email, staying current with my own website as well as finding important information through other websites. I also use it for creating MP3 files of new music I'm working on.”

“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.'”

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

“Something else has happened with computers.”

“A lot of journalists like to suck up to celebrities, and then as soon as they're a safe distance away at their computers, they take shots. But that's the way society has become, especially in pop culture.”

“My goal wasn't to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers.”

“Computers are scary. They're nightmares to fix, lose our stuff, and, on occasion, they crash, producing the blue screen of death. Steve Jobs knew this. He knew that computers were bulky and hernia-inducing and Darth Vader black. He understood the value of declarative design.”

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

“You can't trust the internet.”

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

“I think I was lucky to come of age in a place and time - the American South in the 1960s and '70s - when the machine hadn't completely taken over life. The natural world was still the world, and machines - TV, telephone, cars - were still more or less ancillary, and computers were unheard of in everyday life.”

“As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.”

“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'm really anti-option, so computers have been my nightmare with recording. I don't want endless tracks I want less tracks. I want decisions to be made.”

“Our lives sometimes depend on computers performing as predicted.”

“The only thing I do on a computer is play Texas Hold 'Em, really. Obviously my cell phone is a computer. My car is a computer. I'm on computers every day without actively seeking them out.”

“There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.”

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

“When I was in Japan on tour in 2010, I felt like I was 30 years into the future. I love technology and they are so advanced with their phones, computers, everything. I think they had the iPhone way before we did in the U.S. I love gadgets, games, social media and I try to stay ahead on all that stuff, but they get it all first.”

“Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else's patent.”

“Today, computers are almost second nature to most of us.”