#compute

The point is that these decisions they've made are partly for your convenience and partly for theirs and partly out of stereotypes that they carry with them from the conventions of the computer field. ↗

— Ted Nelson

#computer #convenience #conventions #decisions #field

There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home. ↗

— Ken Olsen

#any #computer #his #home #individual

Software comes from heaven when you have good hardware. ↗

— Ken Olsen

#comes #good #hardware #heaven #software

The ownership of computers in the home is far less than the statistics show, because usually when the computer breaks down once, that is the end of it for a long, long time. They do not have the money or incentive to get the computer repaired. ↗

— Major Owens

#breaks #computer #computers #down #end

I did that for 40 years or more. I never had any writer's block. I got up in the morning, sat down at the typewriter - now, computer - lit up a cigarette. ↗

— Frederik Pohl

#block #cigarette #computer #did #down

Out of grad school, I worked as a tech writer for a while before going into computer coding for a living. ↗

— Richard Powers

#coding #computer #going #grad #i

There's nothing I'd rather do than sort of, you know, sit at my computer and rhyme. ↗

— Gary Ross

#i #know #nothing #rather #rhyme

Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining. ↗

— Jef Raskin

#complaining #every #exploded #happens #imagine

To err is human but to really foul up requires a computer. ↗

— Dan Rather

#computer #err #foul #human #really

No one ever said on their deathbed, 'Gee, I wish I had spent more time alone with my computer'. ↗

— Danielle Berry

#alone #computer #deathbed #ever #gee