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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• The vast majority of people do not have, nor will they ever have a personal computer. They haven't been exposed to Windows or Office, or anything like that, and in their lives it's unlikely that they will.

  Stephen Elop

  People, Office, Majority

  "The phone is the key to everything: Microsoft now owns Nokia's device business" by Brad Chacos, www.pcworld.com. April 25, 2014.

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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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• With the greatest of respect, I have watched Apple from the day it started. I was publishing magazines about the Apple II before most people had ever heard what a personal computer was.

  Felix Dennis

  Apples, People, Magazines

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• What's your personal computer, anyways? Your personal computer should be something that's always on your person.

  Bill Joy

  Technology, Computer, Should

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• Personal computers were created by some teenagers in garages because the, the wisdom of the computer industry was that people didn't want these little toys on their desk.

  Howard Rheingold

  Teenager, People, Want

  The Frontline Interview, www.pbs.org. June 15, 1995.

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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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• Financial hydrogen bombs built on personal computers by 26-year-olds with MBAs.

  Felix Rohatyn

  Business, Years, Mba

  "They had parties, we got the hangover" by Ruth Sunderland, www.theguardian.com. June 6, 2009.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• The Web is actually a coming together of three technologies, if you like: the hypertext, the personal computer, and the network. So, the network we had, and the personal computers were there, but people didn't use them, because they didn't know what to use them for, except maybe for a few games.

  Robert Cailliau

  Technology, Games, People

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• Computer users soon learn that the miraculous powers of personal computers are based on avoidance of error.

  Robert Burchfield

  Errors, Computer, Miraculous

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• We believe that within five years, 96 percent of British consumers will have access to the Internet, whether it be through a personal computer, a set-top box or a mobile phone.

  Richard Branson

  Believe, Phones, Years

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• Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Brain, Transformation, Computer

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• To better understand why you need a personal computer, let's take a look at the pathetic mess you call your life.

  Dave Barry

  Technology, Needs, Looks

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• When Steve Jobs toured Xerox PARC and saw computers running the first operating system that used Windows and a mouse, he assumed he was looking at a new way to work a personal computer. He brought the concept back to Cupertino and created the Mac, then Bill Gates followed suit, and the rest is history.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Running, Jobs, Bills

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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.

  Steve Jobs

  College, Stanford University, Multiple Jobs

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

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