Arthur C. Clarke Quotes

Even though most people won't be directly involved with programming, everyone is affected by computers, so an educated person should have a good understanding of how computer hardware, software, and networks operate.

Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.

Ma sex game is stupid, my head is the dumbest, I promise, I should be hooked on phonics.

Martial sex is kinda like ordering a Civil War chess set through the mail. You get one piece every four to six weeks, you don't know what kind of shape that piece is gonna be in when you get it, but you still gotta pay the handling charges.

My father, an entrepreneur but hardly a technologist, was looking to buy a computer to 'automate' our family business. In 1981, he characteristically dove head first into computing and bought an Osborne I.

The fact is I am not having sex. But I feel absolutely ripe for the, what would you say? plucking?

I've always been slightly embittered about computers because it was the only subject I failed at school.

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 mean, I'm in a band, we're reasonably successful, I've got a very nice suit - I'm not even a bad person- so why can't I get a shag?

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

I'm a techno moron. I need help just to plug in my video camera.

I take computers practically apart and put them back together. I have a supercomputer I built over the years out of different computers.

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

The guy who knows about computers is the last person you want to have creating documentation for people who don't understand computers.

Troubleshooting a wiring problem is a soul-killing experience.

I hate having to read the manual.

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.

Computers rather frighten me, because I never did learn to type, so the whole thing seems extraordinarily complicated to me.

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.

I was around computers from birth; we had one of the first Macs, which came out shortly before I was born, and my dad ran a company that wrote computer operating systems. I don't think I have any particular technical skills; I just got a really large head start.

They went back there, looked at all the computers, asked me to come in and tell them what all the computers were for specifically so they knew how to dismantle the network I had been running.

The most frustrating thing to me is when I tell people I work on 'Friday Night Lights,' they'll say, 'Oh, I hear that's a really good show.' They never watched it.

I can barely turn on my computer!

The 2001 tour to Australia would have been a great highlight in my career if the Lions had won the series. That might sound strange because it was a great tour in many ways, but, for me, the more time goes by, the less of a career highlight it becomes, and just more of a frustration.

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.