Colleagues Quote by Shiv Nadar

We taught ourselves to simulate how microprocessors work using DEC computers so we could develop software even before our machine was built.

— Paul Allen

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

— Marvin Minsky

I remember watching my dad work on PCs, and I remember using Texas Instrument calculators in school. It was a bit nostalgic.

— Scott Michael Foster

Much to the surprise of the builders of the first digital computers, programs written for them usually did not work.

— Rodney Brooks

In some far-off distant time, when the twentieth century history of primitive computing is just a murky memory, someone is likely to suppose that…

— Charles Petzold

ILM was the first company that I had worked at that had a computer-graphics division.

— John Knoll

Ethereum has taken what was a four-function calculator of a programming language in Bitcoin and turned it into a full-fledged computer.

— Fred Ehrsam

The most important thing was the creation of a... a standard, where hundreds of companies build hardware that can all run the same software.

— Bill Gates

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

— Frank Press

Computing technology started out as number-crunching.

— Ramez Naam

Look at what Silicon Valley has done - the advance of computers.

— Buzz Aldrin

First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII — and we thought…

— Douglas Adams