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"Computers rather frighten me, because I never did learn to type, so the whole thing seems extraordinarily complicated to me."
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"To me, there is something superbly symbolic in the fact that an astronaut, sent up as assistant to a series of computers, found that he worked more accurately and more intelligently than they. Inside the capsule, man is still in charge."
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"The word user is the word used by the computer professional when they mean idiot."
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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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"I'm projecting somewhere between 100 million and 200 million computers on the Net by the end of December 2000, and about 300 million users by that same time."
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"I've never had Internet access. Actually, I have looked at things on other people's computers as a bystander. A few times in my life I've opened email accounts, twice actually, but it's something I don't want in my life right now."
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"So the thing I realized rather gradually - I must say starting about 20 years ago now that we know about computers and things - there's a possibility of a more general basis for rules to describe nature."
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"The ARPAnet was the first transcontinental, high-speed computer network."
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"What I try to do is factor in how people use computers, what people's problems are, and how these technologies can get applied to those problems. Then I try to direct the various product groups to act on this information."
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"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."
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"One of the problems with computers, particularly for the older people, is they were befuddled by them, and the computers have gotten better. They have gotten easier to use. They have gotten less expensive. The software interfaces have made things a lot more accessible."
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"It does make you a better director and a better actor."
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"Well I don't write, I attempt to scribble here and there. And no, nothing ever so grand as being published."
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"I have two delightful sons, who I love dearly."
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"Well I was out in the garden moving rocks on the day of the Emmys. I was just playing in the dirt."
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"I was born in Middlesex, England, which is really London."
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"In film and television we are oftentimes so pampered that the truths are withheld."
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"I indeed had only one scene, one speech, one little speech, but it was with Robin Williams."
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"I believe the director's primary role is to create an atmosphere where his company can be created."
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"Computers rather frighten me, because I never did learn to type, so the whole thing seems extraordinarily complicated to me."
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"The Emmy will have no effect on me, from the standpoint that you've still got to wash your bowl after breakfast."
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