Personal Computers Quotes

• I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.

  Bill Gates

  Inspiring, Success, Business

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• Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Science, Technology, Telescopes

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• No one will need more than 637Kb of memory for a personal computer

  Bill Gates

  Funny, Memories, Dumb

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• When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960's, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.

  Steve Jobs

  Typewriters, Years, Stanford University

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it's the first personal computer worth criticizing. So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you'll rule the world.

  Alan Kay

  Iphone, Eight, World

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• Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who is going to build.

  Larry Ellison

  Inspirational, Bills, Computer

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• It is always the young that make the change. You don't get these ideas when you're middle-aged. Young people have daring, creativity, imagination and personal computers. Above all, what you have as young people that's vitally needed to make social change, is impatience. You want it to happen now. There have to be enough people that say, ‘We want it now, in our lifetime.’ This is your moment. This is your opportunity. Be adventurists in the sense of being bold and daring. Be opportunists and seize this opportunity, this moment in history, to go out and save our country. It's your turn now.

  Abbie Hoffman

  Country, Creativity, Opportunity

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• I feel certain that the personal computer is as revolutionary in terms of the way it will change the way we work, learn, and entertain ourselves as any of these previous advances.

  Bill Gates

  Way, Computer, Revolutionary

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• The biggest effect of the personal computer revolution has been to allow millions and millions of people to experience computers themselves decades before they ever would have in the old paradigm.

  Steve Jobs

  People, Revolution, Computer

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• Why is it that I notice so many brilliant scientists using Macs for their personal computers; why does the Lawrence Livermore & Berkeley Labs buy millions of dollars worth of Macs?

  Lene

  Doe, Dollars, Labs

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• Today, in the Twenty-First Century, an age of jet aircraft, personal computers, wireless telecommunications, laser surgery, and incipient space travel, the mentality with which many presumably educated, intelligent people approach matters of economics and business is, however astonishing it may seem, still that of the Dark Ages.

  George Reisman

  Dark, Intelligent, Space

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• This is a very exciting time in the world of information. It`s not just that the personal computer has come along as a great tool. The whole pace of business is moving faster. Globalization is forcing companies to do things in new ways.

  Bill Gates

  Moving, Tools, Pace

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• I think that having been around computers all my life - my father had brought home personal computers at a very early age in the '70s - so being around computers from a very early age perhaps I had even subconsciously seen the exponential progression of what was happening with computers.

  Barry Ptolemy

  Father, Home, Thinking

  "Barry Ptolemy Gets Personal". Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. April 27, 2009.

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• I talk to myself through the computer. I ask myself questions, leave things to be looked at again, things that you would do with a notepad. It turns out today that it’s much better today to do with a personal computer rather than a notepad.

  Seymour Cray

  Today, Computer, Notepads

  "Video History interview". Interview witn David K. Allison for the Smithsonian Institution, May 9, 1955.

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• People tend to personalize technology so they can't get to the systemic analysis. They say, "Oh, I can't give up my personal computer." Or, "I just love radio too much."

  Chellis Glendinning

  Giving Up, Technology, People

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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• The most important work I got a chance to be involved in, no matter what I do, is the personal computer... I even knew not to get married until later because I was so obsessed with it. That's my life's work.

  Bill Gates

  Important, Matter, Chance

  D5 conference, allthingsd.com. May 30, 2007.

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• I often think about the many remarkable things that my personal computer can do which I never ask it to do. I probably use a small fraction of its capabilities. I often wonder if the same dynamic occurs with our capacity for creativity.

  Geoffrey S. Fletcher

  Creativity, Thinking, Use

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• If I were a 13-year-old and I wanted to create subversive art, I wouldn't go out and buy an electric guitar. I'd get myself a personal computer.

  Thomas Dolby

  Art, Guitar, Years

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• The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways. There's a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are), and when they decided to beef up their OSs, they went to (different) very old bad mainframe models of OS design to try to adapt to personal computers.

  Alan Kay

  Real, Ideas, Apples

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• If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, it's likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backward 10 years later.

  Steve Jobs

  College, Stanford University, Years

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• The early personal computers were not very powerful so the idea of feeding their program into a small amount of memory requires immense skill.

  Bill Gates

  Memories, Powerful, Skills

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• The term, information at your fingertips, is to remind people what a broad role the personal computer will be playing. It's not a computation device, it's not a word processing or a spreadsheet device. It's a window onto the world of information.

  Bill Gates

  People, Roles, World

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• Over my career, I'd say the last 25 years; we've gone from music and computer being for 10 people in the world to having personal computers, to now being able to do amazing things on your iPhone, or with Rock Band. So, right now there's enormous capability with technology in our devices that everybody has access to.

  Tod Machover

  Technology, Iphone, Rocks

  Source: bigthink.com

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• 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 Case

  People, Challenges, Firsts

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• In the summer of 1988, I received an interesting call from Bill Gates at Microsoft. He asked whether I'd like to come over and talk about building a new operating system at Microsoft for personal computers. What Bill had to offer was the opportunity to build another operating system, one that was portable.

  Dave Cutler

  Summer, Opportunity, Interesting

  "Introduction". Inside Windows NT, 1998.

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