Betty Parsons Quotes

Every time I learn a new thing to do on my computer, I have to write it down so that I can remember it.

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.

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

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

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

I can't work a computer.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

The manual for WordStar, the most popular word-processing program, is 400 pages thick. To write a novel, you have to read a novel - one that reads like a mystery to most people. They're not going to learn slash q-z any more than they're going to learn Morse code. That is what Macintosh is all about.

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

I'm not very computer savvy.

Software is now so complex - requiring so many gazillions of tiny files all over your computer - that most consumers don't want to bother to know what's really going on.

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

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.

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

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 the worst at a computer.

I don't even have 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.