Adora Svitak Quotes

There's my education in computers, right there; this is the whole thing, everything I took out of a book.

I'm addicted to documentaries. That's all I watch on television.

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.

I look like a geeky hacker, but I don't know anything about computers.

I learned to work on a computer years before I was placed under house arrest. Fortunately I had two laptops when I was under house arrest - one an Apple and one a different operating system. I was very proud of that because I know how to use both systems.

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

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.

I don't have a computer. I don't know anything about that. I don't even know what a website is.

I don't watch a lot of TV, but I watch cartoons. And documentaries.

You can and must understand computers now.

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

I'm not very technically minded. I mean, I don't know how to do e-mail on computers.

Computer literacy is a fundamental civil right.

I'm a big watcher of sports, consumer of sports content, so I love documentaries; I love the format.

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.

I watch a ton of CNN.

I think when I graduated from my high school in '84, they were just bringing computers in. I don't even know if they were for classes. They might have just been for the administration. It was nowhere on the radar for anybody that I know.

I don't tend to watch TV. I'm like a Netflix junkie. I watch a lot of documentaries and movies on Netflix. I like 'Downton Abbey.'

I don't watch too much TV when it comes to sports or news or things like that.

A good night in is a series of documentaries.

That was something that shaped my thinking regarding Estonia: the idea that we should be getting our young people to work with computers.

I absolutely know how to sit in front of a computer screen, that's for sure.

I don't let Molly watch much television. The only stations I let her watch are PBS and the Disney Channel. The cartoons on the other stations are too violent and filled with obnoxious commercials.

I always have CNN on. That's where I get my ideas.

Honestly, I still don't use my computer. My kids use the computer more than I do! I understand that a lot of people are into it, and I have days where I write and stuff, but it's really not for me. It's not my thing.