Roger McGuinn Quotes

The whole thought of a career with computers - given that hardly anybody even knew what they were - it wasn't even a concept.

I was always a computer kid, and I grew up with the Internet and always found it fascinating.

I don't think many people anticipated how the Internet was going to revolutionize the way we disseminate information.

All my kids were raised on computers: They were home-schooled on the Internet, so they're pretty good at that stuff. And I'm proud of them, but I don't really keep up with it.

I'm a computer guy, and one of the things I did with the good fortune that 'Presumed Innocent' brought me was to buy one of the very first laptop computers. It weighed about eight and a half pounds, by the way.

I started on computers with 'Billy Bathgate,' a little orange screen with black letters. I thought it was really cool, but it actually slowed me up for a while because it's so easy to revise, I tended to stay on the same page. I've learned to discipline myself.

I got my first computer at, I don't know, when I was 11 years old? 10?

The new information technology... Internet and e-mail... have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications.

Britain helped create the Internet - Tim Berners Lee created the World Wide Web, one of a long line of British scientists who have given us an outsized role in shaping our own digital future.

I got my first computer at the age of 6. To me, it was magic. By the time I was 12, I wanted to know the secrets behind the wizardry, and that started my journey toward computer programming. This was the early 1990s, when computers weren't built for the mass market.

Advances in computer technology and the Internet have changed the way America works, learns, and communicates. The Internet has become an integral part of America's economic, political, and social life

I despise computers in many ways. I think they’re hopelessly underevolved and overrated.

I don't really love computers.

I had never touched a computer in my life before I came to Pixar.

The technological breakthrough of the World Wide Web has been enormously beneficial to society.

I taught myself computer. Then Macintosh came along, and it became a really bad addiction. If I wasn't in show business, I'd have pocket protectors growing out of my chest. I do everything on it. It's kinda sick.

If Al Gore invented the Internet, I invented spell check.

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.

It always helps to be a good programmer. It is important to like computers and to be able to think of things people would want to do with their computers.

When you learn to read and write, it opens up opportunities for you to learn so many other things. When you learn to read, you can then read to learn. And it's the same thing with coding. If you learn to code, you can code to learn. Now some of the things you can learn are sort of obvious. You learn more about how computers work.

The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.

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.

I don't have a computer. A computer's a typewriter. I already have a typewriter.

The Internet is an amazing development.

I understand that computers, which I once believed to be but a hermaphrodite typewriter-cum-filing cabinet, offer the cyber literate increased ability to communicate. I do not think this is altogether a bad thing, however it may appear on the surface.