Computers Quote by Michael Swanwick

A source of strength in the early days was that groups in various parts of the world were prepared to construct experimental computers without…

— Maurice Wilkes

We wanted technology to go away and for us to experience what it gives us, in a direct link, without any interface

— K. K. Barrett

I started working at a point in history when digital computers were becoming mature, and before that, there were no such machines.

— Marvin Minsky

By the 2010s, almost everybody in the developed world, it seemed, had a powerful digital device that took little or no special skills or…

— Walt Mossberg

Earlier, if you had a piece of technology, anyone could theoretically take it apart and put it back together again, and understand how it…

— Charlie Jane Anders

It was one of those sort of apocalyptic moments. I remember within ten minutes of seeing the graphical user interface stuff, just knowing that…

— Steve Jobs

When the first computers started to come in, we tried to digitalize the seismological equipment.

— Frank Press

If anyone had realized that within 10 years this tiny system that was picked up almost by accident was going to be controlling 50…

— Andrew S. Tanenbaum

“the telemetrists began to use a computer to program the computer that designed the program for the computer that programmed the robot-controlling computer. There…

— Isaac Asimov

There was a magical breakthrough when the computer became cheap and we could see that everyone could afford a computer.

— Bill Gates

It's pretty amazing to go from a world where computers were unheard of and very complex to where they're a tool of everyday life.

— Bill Gates

Trying to use all the existing technologies that were out there wouldn't work for us because none of them were flexible. Everything was rigid…

— Christine Bieselin Clark