Personal Computer Quotes

#1. 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

#2. The crucial legacy of the personal computer is that anyone can write code for it and give or sell that code to you - and the vendors of the PC and its operating system have no more to say about it than your phone company does about which answering machine you decide to buy.

Jonathan Zittrain

#3. We think of them as mobile phones, but the personal computer, mobile phone and the Internet are merging into some new medium like the personal computer in the 1980s or the Internet in the 1990s.

Howard Rheingold

#4. No country should waste wireless spectrum. Especially not India, where the cellphone has become the personal computer.

Ram Shriram

#5. Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who's going to build.

Larry Ellison

#6. No one will need more than 637Kb of memory for a personal computer

Bill Gates

#7. 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

#8. You can't get a personal computer to work without Windows (this is under the assumption you can actually get Windows to work).

Steven B. Green

#9. 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

#10. E-mail is the most influential application ever to appear on a personal computer, and it remains sadly deficient.

Alan Cooper

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. Here's what the death knell for the personal computer will sound like: Mainly I use my phone/paid, but I still use my PC to write long e-mails and documents. Most people aren't there yet, but that's where we're headed

Paul Allen

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. Well, the thought that everybody might have a personal computer at their desk or their home was certainly not on the mainstream of anybody's activity at that time.

Jack Kilby

#19. 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

#20. We culturally decided, as the personal computer came in, that it was for the boys.

Megan Smith

#21. 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

#22. Engelbart showed, back in 1968, nearly everything that a networked personal computer does today.

Walter Isaacson

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

Bill Joy

#24. With current technology it is possible to put four floppy disk drives in a personal computer. It is just that doing so would be pointless.

Andrew S. Tanenbaum

#25. I think that the health care industry is so complex that it doesn't necessarily start with a single killer app. You go back to the early days of the personal computer - when I joined the industry, we really didn't know what the killer app was going to be.

John Sculley

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

Dave Barry

#27. The young Steve Jobs had a hard time articulating something that didn't exist. He could see it, taste it, knew what it felt like, but he didn't have all the language because it hadn't been invented yet. People didn't fathom the personal computer on a mass produced level.

Joshua Michael Stern

#28. Your programming leads to your thoughts; your thoughts lead to your feelings; your feelings lead to your actions; your actions leads to your results. Therefore, just as is done with a personal computer, by changing your programming, you take the first essential step to changing your results.

T. Harv Eker

#29. 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

#30. With a 100-year perspective, the real value of the personal computer is not spreadsheets, word processors or even desktop publishing. It's the Web.

Bill Atkinson

#31. At this moment I do not have a personal relationship with a computer.

Janet Reno

#32. I wish I could have 25,000 years of my personal family history documented in a very powerful computer or a CD-ROM that I could just pop in and my computer would never crash.

Brendan Fraser

#33. On a scale ranging from very little to too much, Merkin could just about categorize the amount of personal data stored in Master Loo's computer as a shitload.

Sorin Suciu

#34. My worst personal problem is that my computer doesn't understand me.

Ashleigh Brilliant

#35. I can't see any reason that anyone would want a computer of his own," DEC president Ken Olsen declared at a May 1974 meeting where his operations committee was debating whether to create a smaller version of its PDP-8 for personal consumers.

Walter Isaacson

#36. If you want access to the files of valuable information in a computer, you must understand how to retrieve the data by asking for it with the proper commands. Likewise, what enables you to get anything you want from your own personal databanks is the commanding power of asking questions.

Tony Robbins

#37. I work in a giant building:
forty floors and forty cubicles
per wing, four wings per floor,
one person and one personal
computer per cubicle, a labyrinth
in which everyone's goal is to stay lost.

John Engman

#38. If there's a will, there's a way!
I feel larger than LIFE
and look up to the stars who shine down on me and have become my own personal cheerleaders ... as my fingers tap on my computer late into the night..

Donna Scrima-Black

#39. When I left Apple, it had $2 billion of cash. It was the most profitable computer company in the world - not just personal computers - and Apple was the number one selling computer.

John Sculley

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

Robert Burchfield

#41. For personal reasons, I do not browse the web from my computer. (I also have not net connection much of the time.) To look at page I send mail to a demon which runs wget and mails the page back to me. It is very efficient use of my time, but it is slow in real time.

Richard Stallman

#42. Apple is not in the computer business. Apple is in the empowerment business. Nike is not in the sneakers business. It is in the personal goals business. Heineken is not in the beer business. It is in the party business. Forgetting

Alexander, Mr Manu

#43. I have a grandson who is 20. He's a computer guy. I'm worried that he can't communicate without his machine. They have no personal contact with people. That's the bad part of technology.

Penny Marshall

#44. If you're using a computer as an artist and expressing your personal vision, I think your personal vision comes through.

Dave Gibbons

#45. 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

#46. If, for some reason, we make some big mistake and IBM wins, my personal feeling is that we are going to enter a computer Dark Ages for about twenty years.

Steve Jobs

#47. I'd written personal essays before, but never on this scale
never so often and with such, er, honesty. (If by honesty I mean slashing my wrists and hemorrhaging all over the computer screen).

Ayelet Waldman

#48. You need face time, not computer time. When you're in a tough job market, it's the personal touch that gets you the job.

Suze Orman

#49. Many people suggest using mathematics to talk to the aliens, and Dutch computer scientist Alexander Ollongren has developed an entire language (Lincos) based on this idea. But my personal opinion is that mathematics may be a hard way to describe ideas like love or democracy.

Seth Shostak