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“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.”

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Author:Bill Gates

“We are not even close to finishing the basic dream of what the PC can be.”

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Author:Bill Gates

“When the PC was launched, people knew it was important.”

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Author:Bill Gates

“Much of my work has come from being lazy. I didn't like writing programs, and so, when I was working on the IBM 701 (an early computer), writing programs for computing missile trajectories, I started work on a programming system to make it easier to write programs.”

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Author:John Backus

“We couldn't build quantum computers unless the universe were quantum and computing. We can build such machines because the universe is storing and processing information in the quantum realm. When we build quantum computers, we're hijacking that underlying computation in order to make it do things we want: little and/or/not calculations. We're hacking into the universe.”

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Author:Seth Lloyd

“Cloud computing offers individuals access to data and applications from nearly any point of access to the Internet, offers businesses a whole new way to cut costs for technical infrastructure, and offers big computer companies a potentially giant market for hardware and services.”

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Author:Jamais Cascio

“Computer games tend to be boys' games, warlike games with more violence. We have not spent enough time thinking through how to encourage more girls to be involved in computing before coming to college so they can see a possible career in information technology.”

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Author:Freeman A. Hrabowski III

“I don't need a hard disk in my computer if I can get to the server faster... carrying around these non-connected computers is byzantine by comparison.”

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Author:Steve Jobs

“Computer scientists are the historians of computing.”

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Author:Gordon Bell

“On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.”

“In the world of computers and just devices in general, the lifespan, or the shelf life, is relatively short just because technology moves so fast and the costs drop so quickly and the power, whether it's computing power or memory rises very, very quickly.”

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Author:Nicholas Negroponte

“I think the increased ubiquity of the internet and networked computing in general allowed me to have some tether no matter where I was geographically. I could log in to a computer from anywhere in the world and access the same information and the same people. It allowed me to transcend the physical differences.”

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Author:Chelsea Manning

“Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs founded Apple Inc, which set the computing world on its ear with the Macintosh in 1984.”

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Author:Kevin Mitnick

“Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living.”

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Book:Being Digital

Source: Being Digital

“In the practical world of computing, it is rather uncommon that a program, once it performs correctly and satisfactorily, remains unchanged forever.”

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Author:Niklaus Wirth

“Cloud computing is a great euphemism for centralization of computer services under one server.”

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Author:Evgeny Morozov

“Two years from now, spam will be solved.”

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Author:Bill Gates

“There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.”