I fix my grandchildren's computers.
E-mail is the most influential application ever to appear on a personal computer, and it remains sadly deficient.
I have a cell phone that doesn't behave like a phone: It behaves like a computer that makes calls. Computers are becoming an integral part of daily life. And if people don't start designing them to be more user-friendly, then an even larger part of the population is going to be left out of even more stuff.
Juries are not computers. They are composed of human beings who evaluate evidence differently.
In World War II, a British mathematician named Alan Turing led the effort to crack the Nazis' communication code. He mastered the complex German enciphering machine, helping to save the world, and his work laid the basis for modern computer science. Does it matter that Turing was gay?
Computer science inverts the normal. In normal science, you're given a world, and your job is to find out the rules. In computer science, you give the computer the rules, and it creates the world.
The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
When I first got to Apple, which was in '84, the Mac was already out, and 'Newsweek' contacted me and asked me what I thought of the Mac. I said, 'Well, the Mac is the first personal computer good enough to be criticized.'
Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
