Rodney Brooks Quotes

When I was younger, I would look at a game with computers and still be fascinated by the possibilities.

I started on an Apple II, which I had bought at the very end of 1978 for half of my annual income. I made $4,500 a year, and I spent half of it on the computer.

I think I thought it would be important for electronics as we knew it then, but that was a much simpler business and electronics was mostly radio and television and the first computers.

I spent most of my childhood welded to my Atari 2600, until I got my first computer, a TRS-80.

After the Apple II was introduced, then came the Commodore and the Tandy TRS-80.

I am now very interested in computer technology as it is used currently to make games. I think this technology is very powerful and could be used in new ways.

My first computers were a Timex Sinclair and an Apple II.

I just grew up liking computers and stuff like that. Mainly cool stuff, like video games.

I've always loved technology. Growing up, I loved Nintendo and video games.

The only legitimate use of a computer is to play games.

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.'

I would love to make video games.

I'm really interested in the current tech world because of my brother Michael. Since we were little kids, in the 1970s, he was dealing with the first computers. He works for the government.

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.

I've been programming computers since elementary school, where they taught us, and I stuck with computer science through high school and college.

There has never been an unexpectedly short debugging period in the history of computers.

I got into computers back in the early '80s, so it was a natural progression of learning about e-mail in the mid-'80s and getting into the Internet when it opened up in the early '90s.

I had spent the summer of 1966 working at MIT in the group that was the MIT component of the Multics effort.

I love playing FIFA on my PlayStation!

If there's 'game' in the title, I'm there! Ready to play!

While my friends were busy listening to the Talking Heads, Police, and B-52s, I was busy teaching myself to program on the Atari.

Everyone has played video games at some point these days, and video games are fun.

The beginnings of the hacker culture as we know it today can be conveniently dated to 1961, the year MIT acquired the first PDP-1.

I was around computers from birth; we had one of the first Macs, which came out shortly before I was born, and my dad ran a company that wrote computer operating systems. I don't think I have any particular technical skills; I just got a really large head start.

My first computer was a Commodore 64. I got it as a present from my mom when I was eight years old, and all I wanted to do with that computer was play games.