Clive Thompson Quotes

I'm named after a computer and grew up really interested in them.

Computers intimidate me.

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.

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

I don't really love computers.

I got my first computer in the 6th grade or so. As soon as I got it, I was interested in finding out how it worked and how the programs worked and then figuring out how to write programs at just deeper and deeper levels within the system.

Computer science is one of the worst things that ever happened to either computers or to science.

I started on computers with 'Billy Bathgate,' a little orange screen with black letters. I thought it was really cool, but it actually slowed me up for a while because it's so easy to revise, I tended to stay on the same page. I've learned to discipline myself.

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

I am interested in computers and technology, and art, photography, and design.

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

I just think there's a general interest in the world of computers.

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

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 a PC guy.

I just grew up liking computers and stuff like that. Mainly cool stuff, like video games.

The whole thought of a career with computers - given that hardly anybody even knew what they were - it wasn't even a concept.

Computers in general, and software in particular, are much more difficult than other kinds of technology for most people to grok, and they overwhelm us with a sense of mystery.

I can't work a computer.

I got my first computer at the age of 6. To me, it was magic. By the time I was 12, I wanted to know the secrets behind the wizardry, and that started my journey toward computer programming. This was the early 1990s, when computers weren't built for the mass market.

The idea behind digital computers may be explained by saying that these machines are intended to carry out any operations which could be done by a human computer.

By the time I was a senior in high school, I knew I wanted to move to Silicon Valley and learn more about computers and the Internet. I just fell in love with technology and the potential of everything the Internet had to offer.

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'm the worst at a computer.

I started working at a point in history when digital computers were becoming mature, and before that, there were no such machines.