Adam Osborne Quotes

There's my education in computers, right there; this is the whole thing, everything I took out of a book.

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

Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.

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 trying to get through life without really knowing about computers, but I don't know if I am going to make it.

This is what customers pay us for - to sweat all these details so it's easy and pleasant for them to use our computers. We're supposed to be really good at this. That doesn't mean we don't listen to customers, but it's hard for them to tell you what they want when they've never seen anything remotely like it.

I wouldn't call myself a geek, but I do sometimes teach Mommy and Daddy stuff about computers. And I do watch TV, but only informative programmes like the news and documentaries.

Even in the developing parts of the world, kids take to computers like fish to water.

No, I consider myself computer illiterate.

I'm definitely the most tech-savvy in my family. My wife wouldn't have a clue, as far as getting the computer working. All of my kids, it's amazing. Like everybody's kids, they're more savvy than I am, probably.

I like my computer. But I don't know how to use it as well as the 10-year-old daughter.

We've been working now with computers and education for 30 years, computers in developing countries for 20 years, and trying to make low-cost machines for 10 years. This is not a sudden turn down the road.

I'm not as tech savvy as some YouTubers, but I'm a lot better than my grandparents. Whenever I have a technical question, or something isn't working, I ask Google, and that usually throws up the answer.

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 look like a geeky hacker, but I don't know anything about computers.

I have a cell phone that doesn't behave like a phone: It behaves like a computer that makes calls. Computers are becoming an integral part of daily life. And if people don't start designing them to be more user-friendly, then an even larger part of the population is going to be left out of even more stuff.

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

One of the problems with computers, particularly for the older people, is they were befuddled by them, and the computers have gotten better. They have gotten easier to use. They have gotten less expensive. The software interfaces have made things a lot more accessible.

I'm very impatient, and if I get a new piece of technology, no matter what it is - I recently got the iPhone, which is very exciting - I can't be doing with reading manuals. I want it to work immediately and to do what I want it to do.

I fix my grandchildren's computers.

I'm not very computer savvy.

I hate having to read the manual.

Here's where I luck out: I'm really computer illiterate.

I am of the very last generation who didn't have computers at school. As we grow old we'll become something of an aberration.

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