Jimmy Carl Black Quotes

I don't even know which end of a computer one is supposed to gaze into. I've never used a computer.

I can't work a computer.

I like the computer! It's a gadget, and I love gadgets. But it's very complicated and I didn't think I'd have the time to learn.

Gee, I am a complete Luddite when it comes to computers, I can barely log on!

I've been using a computer for quite some time, and I don't understand everything.

I couldn't tell you in any detail how my computer works. I use it with a layer of automation.

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 am not at all computer literate in real life. I haven't yet found a reason to be. Once I find a reason why I need to be on the Internet, then I will be.

I don't even have my own computer.

My first week at Stanford, I bought a computer, and it was the first computer I ever owned. I had to be taught how to turn it on and even how to use a mouse, even though, for a lot of people, a mouse is very intuitive.

I don't know how to turn on a computer.

People are very confused about how to do things on a computer, but generally, if you hover your cursor over things, it will tell you what it is.

Computers rather frighten me, because I never did learn to type, so the whole thing seems extraordinarily complicated to me.

Apple took the edge off the word 'computer.'

Even though most people won't be directly involved with programming, everyone is affected by computers, so an educated person should have a good understanding of how computer hardware, software, and networks operate.

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.

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.

You don't have to know how to build an automobile or a television set or a laptop to know how to use it.

I met some fans who said, 'Please start Twittering!' They even walked me through it, but I'm terrible at it. I'm so bad at keeping it up. I forget how to use it. And I'm not very savvy: I try to send a private message, and it goes out to everybody.

I have a PC because I don't know how to use a Mac. Actors always have Macs with them, and when I try to use someone else's, I can't get the hang of it. It's very strange; I don't like it.

I'm so computer illiterate, I barely know how to send an e-mail. I mean, I have a laptop and Gmail, but I don't really look at it much.

People don't understand computers. Computers are magical boxes that do things. People believe what computers tell them.

I definitely taught my parents how to text and how to charge their phones.

Coding is like writing, and we live in a time of the new industrial revolution. What's happened is that maybe everybody knows how to use computers, like they know how to read, but they don't know how to write.

For many years, even as users became more sophisticated, personal computers took too much effort to use without problem-solving, keeping alive the yearning for greater simplicity. Microsoft's dominant Windows platform, in particular, was a home for all manner of bugs and problems that required IT people to straighten out.