“The vast majority of people do not have, nor will they ever have a personal computer. They haven't been exposed to Windows or Office, or anything like that, and in their lives it's unlikely that they will.” PeopleHavensOfficeComputerWindowMajorityExposedUnlikelyPersonal Computers Author:Stephen Elop
“What's your personal computer, anyways? Your personal computer should be something that's always on your person.” ShouldPersonsTechnologyComputerPersonal Computers Author:Bill Joy
“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.” ThinkingSuccessInspiringBusinessCreativityTechnologyCommunicationComputerFairsToolsEmpoweringUsersEmpowering WomenComputingPersonal ComputersInternet TechnologyInternet Business Author:Bill Gates
“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.” PeopleHeardComputerMagazinesApplesPublishingPersonal Computers Author:Felix Dennis
“In the summer of 1988, I received an interesting call from Bill Gates at Microsoft. He asked whether I'd like to come over and talk about building a new operating system at Microsoft for personal computers. What Bill had to offer was the opportunity to build another operating system, one that was portable.” OpportunityInterestingBuildingOffersComputerSummerBillsGatesMicrosoftOperating SystemsPersonal Computers Author:Dave Cutler
“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.” PeopleFirstsHardChallengesEconomyComputerSellsDecadesPersonal Computers Author:Steve Case
“When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960's, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.” YearsMadeWholeEarthFormYoungGenerationsComputerLateToolsCamerasFellowsNotionBrandsParksPoeticPublishingGoogle1960sNeatPublicationMy GenerationTypewritersIdealisticScissorsStanford UniversityDesktopPersonal ComputersPolaroidsAmazing JobDesktop Publishing Author:Steve Jobs
“Today, in the Twenty-First Century, an age of jet aircraft, personal computers, wireless telecommunications, laser surgery, and incipient space travel, the mentality with which many presumably educated, intelligent people approach matters of economics and business is, however astonishing it may seem, still that of the Dark Ages.” PeopleFirstsMayStillsMatterSeemsAgeTodayDarkSpaceCenturyComputerApproachEconomicsTwentiesIntelligentEducatedMentalitySurgeryAstonishingJetDark AgesSpace TravelAircraftWirelessLasersPersonal ComputersTelecommunications Author:George Reisman
“The biggest effect of the personal computer revolution has been to allow millions and millions of people to experience computers themselves decades before they ever would have in the old paradigm.” PeopleHas BeensMillionsEffectsRevolutionComputerDecadesParadigmPersonal Computers Author:Steve Jobs
“I feel certain that the personal computer is as revolutionary in terms of the way it will change the way we work, learn, and entertain ourselves as any of these previous advances.” WayFeelsCertainTermComputerRevolutionaryPersonal Computers Author:Bill Gates
“I talk to myself through the computer. I ask myself questions, leave things to be looked at again, things that you would do with a notepad. It turns out today that it’s much better today to do with a personal computer rather than a notepad.” TodayTurnsAsksComputerPersonal ComputersNotepads Author:Seymour Cray
“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?” DoeMillionsComputerScientistDollarsBrilliantLabsMacsBerkeleyPersonal Computers Author:Lene
“I think that having been around computers all my life - my father had brought home personal computers at a very early age in the '70s - so being around computers from a very early age perhaps I had even subconsciously seen the exponential progression of what was happening with computers.” ThinkingHomeAgeFatherComputerHappeningsProgressionPersonal Computers Author:Barry Ptolemy
“People tend to personalize technology so they can't get to the systemic analysis. They say, "Oh, I can't give up my personal computer." Or, "I just love radio too much."” PeopleGivingI CanTechnologyToo MuchGiving UpComputerRadioAnalysisPersonal Computers Author:Chellis Glendinning
“I often think about the many remarkable things that my personal computer can do which I never ask it to do. I probably use a small fraction of its capabilities. I often wonder if the same dynamic occurs with our capacity for creativity.” IfsThinkingUseAsksCan DoWonderCreativityComputerCapacityRemarkableCapabilityFractionsPersonal Computers Author:Geoffrey S. Fletcher
“If I were a 13-year-old and I wanted to create subversive art, I wouldn't go out and buy an electric guitar. I'd get myself a personal computer.” IfsYearsArtWantedComputerGuitarElectricSubversiveElectric GuitarPersonal Computers Author:Thomas Dolby
“The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways. There's a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are), and when they decided to beef up their OSs, they went to (different) very old bad mainframe models of OS design to try to adapt to personal computers.” WayShouldTryingIdeasDifferentRealProcessDesignObjectsComputerModelsUnderstoodDecidedApplesDescriptionNetworkingBeefHardwareOperating SystemsPersonal ComputersCacheMainframe Author:Alan Kay
“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. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backward 10 years later.” IfsYearsMightCoursesClassClearWonderfulImpossibleCollegeComputerWindowMultipleLooking BackLooking ForwardDotsMacsTypographyConnecting The DotsStanford UniversityFontsCalligraphyDropping OutPersonal ComputersTypefaces Author:Steve Jobs
“The early personal computers were not very powerful so the idea of feeding their program into a small amount of memory requires immense skill.” IdeasMemoriesPowerfulAmountSkillsComputerProgramImmenseFeedingVery PowerfulSmall AmountsPersonal Computers Author:Bill Gates
“The term, information at your fingertips, is to remind people what a broad role the personal computer will be playing. It's not a computation device, it's not a word processing or a spreadsheet device. It's a window onto the world of information.” PeopleWorldTermRolesInformationComputerWindowDevicesBroadsProcessingFingertipsComputationPersonal Computers Author:Bill Gates
“Over my career, I'd say the last 25 years; we've gone from music and computer being for 10 people in the world to having personal computers, to now being able to do amazing things on your iPhone, or with Rock Band. So, right now there's enormous capability with technology in our devices that everybody has access to.” PeopleWorldYearsAbleLastsCareersTechnologyGoneRocksRight NowBandComputerAccessEnormousDevicesCapabilityAmazing ThingsIphoneRock BandsPersonal Computers Author:Tod Machover
“The most important work I got a chance to be involved in, no matter what I do, is the personal computer... I even knew not to get married until later because I was so obsessed with it. That's my life's work.” ImportantMatterChanceInvolvedComputerMarriedNo Matter WhatObsessedImportant WorkPersonal Computers Author:Bill Gates
“Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020.” HumansBrainAchieveComputerCapacityTransformationHuman BrainPersonal ComputersSupercomputers Author:Ray Kurzweil
“To better understand why you need a personal computer, let's take a look at the pathetic mess you call your life.” NeedsLooksTechnologyComputerMessPatheticPersonal GroomingPersonal Computers Author:Dave Barry
“Personal computers were created by some teenagers in garages because the, the wisdom of the computer industry was that people didn't want these little toys on their desk.” PeopleWantLittlesIndustryComputerTeenagerToysDesksGaragePersonal Computers Author:Howard Rheingold
“We believe that within five years, 96 percent of British consumers will have access to the Internet, whether it be through a personal computer, a set-top box or a mobile phone.” YearsBelieveFiveInternetComputerPercentPhonesBoxesBritishAccessConsumersFive YearsMobileMobile PhonesPersonal Computers Author:Richard Branson
“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.” IfsCoursesCollegeComputerWindowMultipleMacsConnecting The DotsStanford UniversityFontsCalligraphyPersonal ComputersTypefacesMultiple Jobs Author:Steve Jobs