Personal Computers Quotes

There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.

Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020.

When I first started running there were no computers. There was no such thing as a laptop.

Managerial and professional people hadn't really used computers, hadn't sat down at keyboards, until personal computers. Personal computers have a totally different feel.

To me, Microsoft is about empowerment... we are the original democratizing force, putting a PC in every home and every desk.

If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, it's likely that no personal computer would have them.

In general, the PC's always had a fairly decent tie to GDP.

It is always the young that make the change. You don't get these ideas when you're middle-aged. Young people have daring, creativity, imagination and personal computers. Above all, what you have as young people that's vitally needed to make social change, is impatience. You want it to happen now. There have to be enough people that say, ‘We want it now, in our lifetime.’ This is your moment. This is your opportunity. Be adventurists in the sense of being bold and daring. Be opportunists and seize this opportunity, this moment in history, to go out and save our country. It's your turn now.

Bill Gates did predict that computers for people made sense because he wrote a basic.

Why is it that I notice so many brilliant scientists using Macs for their personal computers; why does the Lawrence Livermore & Berkeley Labs buy millions of dollars worth of Macs?

After the Apple II was introduced, then came the Commodore and the Tandy TRS-80.

One of the biggest challenges we had in the first decade was not that many people had personal computers. There weren't that many people to sell to, and it was hard to identify them.

When I left Apple, it had $2 billion of cash. It was the most profitable computer company in the world - not just personal computers - and Apple was the number one selling computer.

I remember watching my dad work on PCs, and I remember using Texas Instrument calculators in school. It was a bit nostalgic.

I think there will be PCs at every price point.

I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.

In a way, digital cameras were like very early personal computers such as the Commodore 64 - clunky and able to do only a few things.

You increasingly are seeing more Macs than PCs.

Computing shows up in many different ways. You have computing that you wear, computing that you carry. What you think of as the traditional PC market has a long tail of usage, particularly in the commercial world, but also in consumer.

There are two distinctive classes of people today, those who have personal computers, and those who have several thousand extra dollars apiece.

The Cube is approximately - it's around the same age as the Internet, and in that time, we had no personal computers yet.

I went to computer class with my Dell and I was bullied by a guy with a Mac.

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.

The early personal computers were not very powerful so the idea of feeding their program into a small amount of memory requires immense skill.

I think PCs are going to be like trucks. Less people will need them. And this is going to make some people uneasy.