Computers Quote by Paul Dourish

Traditionally computers have not been that good at interacting with people in ways that people feel natural interacting with.

— Jeff Dean

Think about it. Right now, a whole generation of young (customers) in the United States has been brought up to take computers for granted.…

— Andy Grove

A mouse and a keyboard is not a good performance instrument.

— Pauline Oliveros

“our longstanding idea of a computer is obsolete.”

— Nicholas Carr

“computers on everybody’s desk. The PC, which previously could have been dismissed as a technophile’s tinker-toy, was now becoming the essential business productivity tool.…

— John Wiley and Sons

“And he’d realized computers could be a tool to unite society.”

— Neal Stephenson

“Licklider believed that computers could one day change the world for the better. He envisioned “home computer consoles,” with people sitting in front of…

— Annie Jacobsen

“Computers are heaven-sent when they work and hell-spawn when they don't. There's just not much middle ground when it comes to technology.”

— Dani Harper

The computer is really like a pencil, you know. It used to be. The pencil can do anything you want to, but you have…

— Massimo Vignelli

“The role had been spawned by the widespread belief that traders didn’t know how to talk to computer geeks and that computer geeks did…

— Michael Lewis

“When I was a kid, they had a saying, 'to err is human but to really fuck it up takes a computer.’ ”

— Benjamin R. Smith

“Michael was using a laptop computer in desktop fashion.”

— Caroline B. Cooney