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"I had a TV set and a typewriter and that made me think a computer should be laid out like a typewriter with a video screen."
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"I've heard that, but since I'm computer illiterate I don't know how it all works. But since I'm on Prodigy tonight, I'm learning a lot through my typist, Peter."
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"Well, I had a lot of help from my father with the soldering and so on, and he was very good at math and was fascinated with computers, and so I was fortunate enough to have a bunch of exposure going all the way back to high school - this was in the 1960s."
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"I actually built a tiny computer as a junior high school project."
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"If you wanted to build the most powerful computer you could, you can't do better than including everything in the universe that's potentially available."
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"Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020."
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"I did that for 40 years or more. I never had any writer's block. I got up in the morning, sat down at the typewriter - now, computer - lit up a cigarette."
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"I have not proved that the universe is, in fact, a digital computer and that it's capable of performing universal computation, but it's plausible that it is."
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"In the course of my stay there, I also showed how one could analyse the experimental kinetic curves for the reaction of haemoglobin with carbon dioxide or oxygen by simulations in the computer, and so fit the rate constants."
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"You know, IBM was almost knocked out of the box by other types of computer software and manufacturing."
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"Interactive computers and software will, I think, provide a less costly method of doing some kinds of inquiry, in knowledge acquisition and even reasoning and interaction."
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"The way I did it, every job was A+."
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"The more we thought, the more they all sounded boring compared to Apple. You didn't have to have a real specific reason for choosing a name when you were a little tiny company of two people; you choose any name you want."
Thought
"For some reason I get this key position of being one of two people that started the company that started the revolution."
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"I'd learned enough about circuitry in high school electronics to know how to drive a TV and get it to draw - shapes of characters and things."
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"My whole life had been designing computers I could never build."
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"At our computer club, we talked about it being a revolution. Computers were going to belong to everyone, and give us power, and free us from the people who owned computers and all that stuff."
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"Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked."
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"Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window."
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"I worked with such concentration and focus and I had hundreds of obscure engineering or programming things in my head. I was just real exceptional in that way."
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"My goal wasn't to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers."
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