Jack Nicklaus Quotes

I've got stress like anybody else, and it builds up during the day. Like, I'll be trying to do something on the computer, and I'll get stuck, so I go to the help section. And it just enrages me, because why even call it a help section at all? There's nothing in any way 'helpful' about it.

I fix my grandchildren's computers.

Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.

I am very bad at computers. I don't really know how to write email.

I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.

I hate having to read the manual.

Not born to be rich, by 1981 I had nonetheless begun to use a PC that required for its operation the absorption of several hundred pages of protocols and the placement of very large floppy disks in the freezer to fix frequent crashes.

Everyone has technical issues - you have them until you die - but you have to be aware of them in a certain way.

A long time ago, we had to build interfaces to connect with other companies, and I thought that was a great idea. The company had to pay a lot of money to build it and basically launched it, but our whole operating system almost broke. So, we couldn't continue it. In the end, I had to go on the train to Paris to explain that I had spent millions.

I spend almost as much time figuring out what's wrong with my computer as I do actually using it.

My wife handles all of our technology. So if something goes wrong with the computer, I throw up my arms and step aside while the IT gal figures it out.

I appreciate all the devices the Windows people are coming up with, but the operating system... I just want to smash it.

I detest computers. If you had a device like that 30 years ago that froze up constantly, misbehaved constantly, lost your information and screwed up when you needed it the most, it would have been laughable.

I'm the computer operator for Operation Rescue National.

It would be nice to have radio support, not that we've ever had that much trouble with it.

I think my dad did legal work for someone who had a Packard Bell 8088, and they couldn't pay him, so they gave him a computer. I was initially not allowed to touch it, but that didn't last long. I started tinkering with it, and there were many times I screwed up the computer.

More than any other modern tool, computers are a total mystery to their users. Most people never open them up to fix them or to see how they work.

I'm a techno moron. I need help just to plug in my video camera.

If something doesn't work in my house - TV, phone, stereo, anything - I just call my dad, and he knows the answer.

Troubleshooting a wiring problem is a soul-killing experience.

Technical problems are like gremlins. They come and go.

I wish I wasn't so technically challenged, because it puts you at a distinct disadvantage. I wish I could figure out a way to get more up to speed.

One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.'

I remember when TiVO first came out I was all about TiVo. I came home and that thing was frozen, and I thought 'This is awful. This is the end of the world'. Then I unplugged it, and I plugged it back in, and still frozen. It was paralyzing. I called them. They said, 'Just unplug it longer.' Fixed. But it also taught me I'm an addict.

I spend a fair amount of time on my computer, but I don't hack into anything. I have to open the manual and follow instructions.