Application Quote by Donald A. Norman

“Today the sight that discourages book people most is to walk into a public library and see computers where books used to be. In…

— Larry McMurtry

One of the wonderful things about the computer is that it allows us to sit at home and either write a book or a…

— Frederick Lenz

Computers shouldn't be unusable. You don't need to know how to work a telephone switch to make a phone call, or how to use…

— Scott McNealy

Computers allow us to squeeze the most out of everything, whether it's Google looking up things, so I guess that tends to make us…

— Buzz Aldrin

To compare books to computers, I mean, computers are the way to get books. That is the medium for distributing text because it doesn't…

— Nicholas Negroponte

Computers will never take the place of books. You can't stand on a floppy disk to reach a high shelf.

— Sam Ewing

“We would not accept a situation in which every home and business had to operate its own power plant, library, printing press and water…

— Scientific American

I wrote a lot about the need for an information appliance. I think we've pretty much arrived at one: the iPad. A child could…

— Walt Mossberg

The experiences that technology provides is very, very important, rather than just the backroom aspects of running things. It's just as important to focus…

— Gary Shapiro

Computers force us into creating with our minds and prevent us from making things with our hands. They dull the skills we use in…

— Clifford Stoll

Students do everything on laptops these days, so I definitely think electronic books are a trend that's going to expand.

— Steven Pinker

Computers are great tools, but they need to be applied to the physical world.

— Tony Fadell