Libba Bray Quotes

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

The computer seems easy because Apple makes the products so easy to use at home. It's the simple things, like getting the TV set up or getting the speakers to work. That drives me crazy.

With concerted effort, I can follow written instructions, but don't ask me to simply grasp how to operate a smartphone.

I hate having to read the manual.

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

I had almost rewritten all of the display code for windows, and that was when I gave up.

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

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.

I'm really not into technology at all. My brother has to plug the Xbox in for me.

I'm not really good with technology.

Twitch has been very hard for me. It makes me feel so stupid. I don't understand it at all... It's very complicated.

I'm pathetic when it comes to the Internet and getting stuff done.

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

Any editing, software work, and mail is done in this exported Plan 9.

Macintosh felt like a system. As I learned more, I felt like I was able to guess how new things would work. I felt like the bugs in my programs were more my bugs and not things I misunderstood.

Not only do I not know what's going on, I wouldn't know what to do about it if I did.

I use Windows; '98 second edition and it works very good for me. You know, I just started on the computer about 9 months ago and am fascinated with the possibilities. I don't know what I would do without it now.

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.

In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word 'frustration'.

Why is it that I notice so many brilliant scientists using Macs for their personal computers; why does the Lawrence Livermore & Berkeley Labs buy millions of dollars worth of Macs?

Oh, I wish I could tell you I was a Mr. Fix-It, but I am not that kind of guy. I get frustrated so easily.

I still can't set up the ironing-board. A complete Luddite.

I use the iPhone and iPad every day, and I no longer touch PCs at all.

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.

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.