Aaron Patzer Quotes

I communicate with my commissioners quite often. Rather than call them and not know if they are going to be there at that time, I can just sit down and bang out a couple of sentences, send it off, and I'll have the answer within a matter of minutes if they are around, or in hours if they are not.

I was an early user of AOL - so early, I didn't even have a number after my user name. For me, email was once vital, both for personal and business uses.

I was one of the first people to join Facebook in February of 2004, and launched one of the inaugural applications on the platform in May 2007.

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'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.

'Cyberspace' is a metaphorical idea which is supposed to be the space where your consciousness is located when you're using computer technology on the Internet, for example, and I'm not entirely sure it's such a useful term, but I think that's what most people mean by it.

I got into computers back in the early '80s, so it was a natural progression of learning about e-mail in the mid-'80s and getting into the Internet when it opened up in the early '90s.

The Internet: transforming society and shaping the future through chat.

'You've got mail!' exclaims the cheery automaton at America Online. The flag on the mailbox icon waves invitingly on my computer screen. For a second, I'm 10 years old again, waiting for the postman's whistle to slice the stillness of an Australian afternoon.

The new information technology... Internet and e-mail... have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications.

Computers and the Internet have made it really easy to rant. It's made everyone overly opinionated.

The Internet has become the phenomenon of the new century. It has become the voice of the people in the first genuine experiment in democracy yet conducted in America. It stands ready to serve every facet, every faction. It creates neighbors where once we were foreigners. It carries our individual voices to new communities formed through the magic of electronics. The electronic village has been born, and the village voice, via the internet is being heard.

The very promise of safety [digital security] is iresistable temptation to hackers, the invading hordes of the 21st century.

The Internet, man, is a beautiful thing.

You have social networking, and you can do things efficiently without the might of a big label.

If you count E-mail, I'm on the Internet all day, every day.

When email and the Internet came along, I never publish an email address. I just stuck with this P.O. Box address.

The whole thought of a career with computers - given that hardly anybody even knew what they were - it wasn't even a concept.

The Internet is crazy, and I love it!

Social media is so huge.

I was always a computer kid, and I grew up with the Internet and always found it fascinating.

When we heard that little dial-up sound, that eeeeee, and then you connected, and you then go and you check your mail and you get that 'you got mail,' you were excited. I mean, that was the thing.

Can you explain what Internet is?

Much of the email we use today is based on what I foresaw in 1978.

You have to be very skilled in this industry. I grew in this industry; we created the very beginnings of this industry. We made the first PCs (personal computers) in the world.