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  • The only legitimate use of a computer is to play games. -- Eugene Jarvis
  • I am not the only person who uses his computer mainly for the purpose of diddling with his computer. -- Dave Barry
  • If being the biggest company was a guarantee of success, we'd all be using IBM computers and driving GM cars. -- James Surowiecki
  • It's important to be informed about issues like usability, reliability, security, privacy, and some of the inherent limitations of computers. -- Brian Kernighan
  • I loved playing computer games. I used to be one of the top World of War-crafters in the world for a couple of years. -- Robert Kazinsky
  • When designers replaced the command line interface with the graphical user interface, billions of people who are not programmers could make use of computer technology. -- Howard Rheingold
  • I use computers and the Internet every day of my life, and yet I have absolutely no idea how they work. I'm like a labrador watching 'The Matrix.' -- John Niven
  • I can write anywhere. But I don't use a computer, and I could never write on a laptop. I hate the sound of computers; it's too dull, like it's not doing anything for you. -- Elmore Leonard
  • Then I started graduate school at UCLA. I got a part time research assistant job as a programmer on a project involving the use of one computer to measure the performance of another computer. -- Jon Postel
  • I took computers in high school. I would do all my own programming, but I didn't see the future of computers for anything other than data processing. Who was going to use a computer for communications? -- Craig Hatkoff
  • I don't use the computer. But my secretary does. I want to take some computer courses because I'm interested in some of the access to some of the illegal things on the Internet. I'm just kidding. -- Ahmet Ertegun
  • The use of the wearable computer changes with each person. When this device is your way of seeing, or a seeing aid, it's how you see the world. When you use it as a memory aid, it is your brain. -- Steve Mann
  • 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
  • A smartphone is a computer - it's not built using a computer - the job it does is the job of being a computer. So, everything we say about computers, that the software you run should be free - you should insist on that - applies to smart phones just the same. And likewise to those tablets. -- Richard Stallman
  • I've never been much of a computer guy at least in terms of playing with computers. Actually until I was about 11 I didn't use a computer for preparing for games at all. I was playing a bit online, was using the chess club mainly. Now, obviously, the computer is an important tool for me preparing for my games. -- Magnus Carlsen
  • I write at a desk. I have a room of my own where I can have my computer. I write in there, usually directly onto my computer. It used to be the room where my two sons used to sleep with the dog and the cat, but now it's all mine. It has pictures of art from my books on the walls. -- Eve Bunting
  • Companies are accustomed to dismissing employees for misuse of computers at work. -- Bill Dedman
  • I have a very positive outlook on things. It's hard to predict how actual books are going to do but I'm not freaked out about ebooks taking over. I think there are probably more active readers now because of computers and iPhones. -- Kevin Sampsell
  • The first thing to note is that pornography and many abductions occur apart from the use of computers, and that most child abuse happens within the family. So I think the extra degree of danger that computers pose doesn't justify the frenzy. -- Seymour Papert
  • I don't use a computer in writing at all. I'm sort of old-fashioned about it. -- James Horner
  • I couldn't tell you in any detail how my computer works. I use it with a layer of automation. -- Conrad Wolfram
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  • If the machines can take the drudgery out of it and just leave us with the joy of drawing, then that's the best of both worlds - and I'll use those computers! -- Don Bluth
  • I'm looking to evolve the concept of the new renaissance artist, taking the world by storm through the art of public display and demonstration, with technical savvy, using cell phones and computers. -- Perry Farrell
  • When Tim Berners-Lee invented the computer code that led to the creation of the World Wide Web in 1990, he did not try to patent or charge fees for the use of his technology. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
  • 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. -- Clint Black
  • I use many different gadgets connected with computers; I use PCs, laptops and a Palm Pilot. I also use the Internet to visit websites, especially within Polish-language Internet. I usually go to political discussion groups and sites - of course, as I use my real name, people never believe that they are chatting with me! -- Lech Walesa
  • I'm a very simple person. I don't use computers. -- Carrie-Anne Moss
  • Mac people use their computers; Windows people put up with their computers -- Wil Shipley
  • I'm encouraging kids to use computers at their own pace to build aspirations. -- Sugata Mitra
  • Technology evangelism has always been my passion since I learned how to use computers. -- Arfa Karim
  • I don't use computers... I'm someone who needs to see the page right away in my hand. -- Neil Simon
  • I've never been that technologically savvy, my friends are actually amused by how infrequently I use computers. -- Justin Long
  • It's a misconception that people over 65 do not use computers. They love them; they are always consulting Dr Google. -- Lucien Engelen
  • It was one thing to use computers as a tool, quite another to let them do your thinking for you. -- Tom Clancy
  • Computers are here to stay. It is a major challenge for the future to use computers efficiently in combinatorics without losing its special appeal. -- Noga Alon
  • I'm actually pretty good with computers. I use computers when I'm working on making and producing music, so I do know a thing or two! -- Nick Jonas
  • When we first started with Apple computers, it was my dream that everyone would learn to program, and that was how they'd use their computer. -- Steve Wozniak
  • I obviously use computers. My car is wondrous. My phone is amazing. I've already talked about the music I'm digitizing. Technology is fantastic, of course. -- Ian MacKaye
  • Computers force us into creating with our minds and prevent us from making things with our hands. They dull the skills we use in everyday life. -- Clifford Stoll
  • I'm not on Twitter or Facebook and don't even use email. I don't trust computers: one day they'll all break down, and everyone will be knackered. -- Eric Bristow
  • Use a personal firewall. Configure it to prevent other computers, networks and sites from connecting to you, and specify which programs are allowed to connect to the net automatically. -- Kevin Mitnick
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