Francois-Henri Pinault Quotes

The reason I'm an I.B.M.-type guy today is that I really needed a laptop back in 1986, and I just couldn't wait for the Powerbook.

I'm a computer guy, and one of the things I did with the good fortune that 'Presumed Innocent' brought me was to buy one of the very first laptop computers. It weighed about eight and a half pounds, by the way.

People thought I was crazy thinking about a phone you can just put in your pocket.

The IIc was Apple's first crack at a 'portable' computer, which it sort of was if you didn't mind a 7.5 pound weight, plus monitor, external floppy drive, and all the cables.

In my view the tablet and the PC are different. You can do things with the tablet if you are not encumbered by the legacy of the PC.

I'm active on Twitter, and I love my iPad and my Kindle.

The cloud has become the next-generation supercomputer, and the smartphone has provided the revolution to spur its use.

With the greatest of respect, I have watched Apple from the day it started. I was publishing magazines about the Apple II before most people had ever heard what a personal computer was.

I remember having computers at my parents' house growing up. We had different desktop PCs, but my first laptop was an IBM ThinkPad laptop. It was big, bulky, slow and terrible.

I started on an Apple II, which I had bought at the very end of 1978 for half of my annual income. I made $4,500 a year, and I spent half of it on the computer.

I think the Macintosh proves that everyone can have a bitmapped display.

Every American college student goes to college with a hard drive. They take their laptop. There's not a CD player in sight.

Just the idea to have everything you need essentially stored in one piece of portable technology is very exciting.

I think there are going to be a bunch of tablet-like devices. It's really a different product category.

The iPad changed my life!

I actually looked at an Apple ad from 1978. It was a print ad. That shows you how ancient it was. And it said, 'Thousands of people have discovered the Apple computer.' Thousands of people.

When Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak created Apple computer in a garage in Palo Alto, it heralded the beginning of the PC revolution that ultimately dealt a death-blow to dozens of older companies.

I think most people in the developed world would admit to carrying some sort of handheld device, whether it's a laptop or a cell phone, at all times.

Millions of nerdy kids who grew up in the 1980s could only find the components they needed at local Radio Shacks, and the stores were like a lifeline to a better world where everybody understood computers.

The computer industry began with home-brew boxes that everyone had to program for themselves, but that was a huge hassle. The computer revolution didn't explode until the first Macintosh arrived, with its point-and-click simplicity.

I really like the iPad. I think that's pretty cool.

Anything can change, because the smartphone revolution is still in the early stages.

I'm a great fan of taking my laptop out and about.

My first Macintosh was a 128k machine which I upgraded to 512k the minute it became possible.

Beyond the hype, style, and speculation, the truth is that the iPad is really just another tablet device. A really big PDA, where a touchscreen does what a laptop's keyboard used to do.