Peter Jones Quotes

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

Computers intimidate me.

I'm a PC guy.

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.

I fix my grandchildren's computers.

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.

I'm the worst at a 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 only legitimate use of a computer is to play games.

I'm not very computer savvy.

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

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

I remember flying in, driving down 101 in a cab, and passing by all these tech companies like Yahoo! I remember thinking, 'Maybe someday we'll build a company. This probably isn't it, but one day we will.'

At this moment I do not have a personal relationship with a computer.

I left halfway through my third year to start Lipstick On Your Collar, which was the first thing I ever did.

The beginnings of the hacker culture as we know it today can be conveniently dated to 1961, the year MIT acquired the first PDP-1.

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 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.

In early 1993, a hostile observer might have had grounds for thinking that the Unix story was almost played out, and with it the fortunes of the hacker tribe.

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

In the space of three weeks, I met a fair bunch of the guys who were just starting those little programmers' co-ops, and everybody was talking about starting businesses.

I started my first business at 14!

I'm so computer illiterate, I barely know how to send an e-mail. I mean, I have a laptop and Gmail, but I don't really look at it much.

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