“Obviously, our children, who have been playing with their computers since the age of five or six, don't have quite the same brain as those who were brought up on wooden or metal toys, whose brains are certainly atrophied by comparison.” ChildrenHas BeensAgeBrainFiveSixComputerOur ChildrenComparisonMetalsToys Author:Claude Vorilhon
“Men are nuts. Young men are crazy. We all love toys. I'm toy oriented. I write about toys. I've got a lot of toys. Hundreds of things. But computers are toys, and men like to mess around with smart dumb things. They feel creative.” MenFeelsWritingYoungCreativeCrazyComputerSmartMessDumbYoung ManNutsToysDumb Things Author:Ray Bradbury
“I'm a physicist, and we have something called Moore's Law, which says computer power doubles every 18 months. So every Christmas, we more or less assume that our toys and appliances are more or less twice as powerful as the previous Christmas.” LawPowerfulMonthsComputerAssumingChristmasToysPhysicistAppliancesMoore's Law Author:Michio Kaku
“It doesn't matter how many televisions and computers and pieces of stereo equipment the Chinese send to us, even if they're sending them to us only in return for some funny, little, green pieces of paper. That is a balanced trade. They got what they wanted: the green pieces of paper. We got what we wanted: the plush toys, the computers, the stereo components.” IfsLittlesMatterWantedPiecesTelevisionReturnPaperComputerGreenTradeChineseToysBalancedEquipmentComponents Author:P. J. O'Rourke
“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
“[The kitchen] was also messy--delightfully so, thought Jane--and it didn't look as though lots of cooking went on there. There was a laptop computer on the counter with duck stickers on it, the spice cabinet was full of Ben's toy trucks, and Jane couldn't spot a cookbook anywhere. This is the kitchen of a Thinker, she decided, and promised herself that she'd never bother with cooking, either.” LooksComputerDecidedCookingSpotsBotherKitchenThinkerDucksToysTruckJaneMessySpicesCabinetsLaptopsCookbookStickerLaptop Computers Author:Jeanne Birdsall