In almost every technology area that we're ahead in, we're ahead in because the United States leads the world in computers.
When the PC was launched, people knew it was important.
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 like the PC market. It's a big market, but it's a very volatile market as well.
Look at the computer industry. I've watched a lot of companies come and go, some that were right at the pinnacle of their success.
I really didn't foresee the Internet. But then, neither did the computer industry. Not that that tells us very much of course--the computer industry didn't even foresee that the century was going to end.
Apple took the edge off the word '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.
Competition is always a fantastic thing, and the computer industry is intensely competitive.
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.
Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs founded Apple Inc, which set the computing world on its ear with the Macintosh in 1984.
I left Apple in April of 1984, pretty soon after the introduction of the Mac.
The computer environment is radically different today. In the 1980s, it was like the Wild West, with a lot of open territory. Now, the cowboys have moved out and the farmers have moved in.
I think Apple's revenge is just the fact that Windows, you know, PCs all became Macintoshes in a way.
The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
What do we want our kids to do? Sweep up around Japanese computers?
The whole thought of a career with computers - given that hardly anybody even knew what they were - it wasn't even a concept.
PCMCIA - People can't memorize computer industries acronyms
You know, IBM was almost knocked out of the box by other types of computer software and manufacturing.
The computer industry is creatively bankrupt.
In some industry markets, high quality can be tied to making more money, but I am sure by now all of us know the computer industry is not like that.
People in the computer industry use the term 'user,' which to them means 'idiot.'
On almost anything someone does in the computer business, you can go back in the literature and prove someone had done it earlier.
Though many people mistakenly credit IBM with the first PC in 1981, the Apple II came out four years earlier, in 1977.
From the late '70s to the early '90s, I wrote anything anybody would pay me for. This ranged from articles on how to clean a longhorn cow's skull for living-room decoration to manuals on elementary math instruction on the Apple II... to a slew of software reviews and application articles done for the computer press.
