Thomas Middleditch Quotes

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.

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

The first thing I think, I was building computers, I started to build a computer when I was 17 or 18 at home, an IBM compatible computer, and then I started to sell computers, and when I sold a computer to a company called Ligo I think, and they were selling systems which became blockbuster.

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 fix my grandchildren's computers.

I've heard that, but since I'm computer illiterate I don't know how it all works. But since I'm on Prodigy tonight, I'm learning a lot through my typist, Peter.

I'm the worst at a computer.

I have a PC. My sons have a Mac and swear by it, but I have a couple PC's.

Computers intimidate me.

My perspective is this: my allegiance is to the best product for my needs. For a computer, this means Macintosh. For phone and tablet, this means Android.

For the first time, individual hackers could afford to have home machines comparable in power and storage capacity to the minicomputers of ten years earlier - Unix engines capable of supporting a full development environment and talking to the Internet.

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

The workstation-class machines built by Sun and others opened up new worlds for hackers.

I'm not very computer savvy.

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 would buy a Mac today if I was not working at Microsoft.

In early 1993, a hostile observer might have had grounds for thinking that the Unix story was almost played out, and with it the fortunes of the hacker tribe.

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

The people I hang out with tend to use Macs, not that I think they're necessarily superior.

I've never owned an Apple product. I like the fact that PCs are open architecture and not locked down like Apple products. I feel that Macs are also unjustifiably overpriced.

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.

I don't have a computer. I never have had one.

My computer? I never use a computer. It's too easy.

People who are more than casually interested in computers should have at least some idea of what the underlying hardware is like. Otherwise the programs they write will be pretty weird.

I use a computer. I don't know if that qualifies me as a techie, but I'm pretty good on the computer.