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"My whole life had been designing computers I could never build."
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"Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog."
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"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."
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"I'm too old-fashioned to use a computer. I'm too old-fashioned to use a quill."
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"The word user is the word used by the computer professional when they mean idiot."
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"But I said wait a minute, I'm going to get a computer, I can do this as well as anybody else. So I did some studying so I knew what kind of boards to get to put a PC together. But there was a guy sitting there with Apple. I said, 'what's that?' and he goes, 'Apple with 128k, it's all built into the box,' and I bought it. That was my first computer."
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"Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading manuals without the software."
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"It always helps to be a good programmer. It is important to like computers and to be able to think of things people would want to do with their computers."
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"Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all."
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"Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations... They now need more, and more expensive clerks even though they call them 'operators' or 'programmers.'"
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"I just recently did a film with Disney, and they put the drawings straight on the computer. And it's all painted on the computer now and not by hand anymore."
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"In the end, I hope there's a little note somewhere that says I designed a good computer."
Hope
"It would be nice to design a real briefcase - you open it up and it's your computer but it also stores your books."
Design
"I thought Microsoft did a lot of things that were good and right building parts of the browser into the operating system. Then I thought it out and came up with reasons why it was a monopoly."
Thought
"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."
Skill
"Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked."
Work
"Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window."
Trust
"My whole life had been designing computers I could never build."
Computer
"For some reason I get this key position of being one of two people that started the company that started the revolution."
People
"I'm surprised at the extent of the bigotry. But it really plays out when companies or schools take a side and prohibit the other platform at all. We Mac users should be good even when the other side is bad. We should do what we can to accept the other platforms."
Acceptance
"Steve Jobs didn't really set the direction of my Apple I and Apple II designs but he did the more important part of turning them into a product that would change the world. I don't deny that."
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