Mark Helprin Quotes

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

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 don't even have a computer.

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

I can't work a computer.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

I can barely turn on my computer!

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

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

I'm the worst at a computer.

I'm a PC guy.

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

When I was a student, I was working at the technology call center, where students call in if they can't get their email to work or something. A minimum-wage kind of job.

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

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

I remember watching my dad work on PCs, and I remember using Texas Instrument calculators in school. It was a bit nostalgic.

I started with CB radio, ham radio, and eventually went into computers. And I was just fascinated with it. And back then, when I was in school, computer hacking was encouraged. It was an encouraged activity. In fact, I remember one of the projects my teacher gave me was writing a log-in simulator.

I think I thought it would be important for electronics as we knew it then, but that was a much simpler business and electronics was mostly radio and television and the first computers.

The only legitimate use of a computer is to play games.

I'm not a computer person at all. I only know how to turn them on. I'm not a programmer. I couldn't program my way out of a paper bag.