Jill Lepore Quotes

Think of the first Apple II being shipped in 1977. It took almost a decade for it to land in my school where I could see it.

Managerial and professional people hadn't really used computers, hadn't sat down at keyboards, until personal computers. Personal computers have a totally different feel.

I actually looked at an Apple ad from 1978. It was a print ad. That shows you how ancient it was. And it said, 'Thousands of people have discovered the Apple computer.' Thousands of people.

Well, the thought that everybody might have a personal computer at their desk or their home was certainly not on the mainstream of anybody's activity at that time.

I got my first computer when I was 6, and I was part of that early generation of children who grew up with computers always being around. I fell in love with them early on.

One of the biggest challenges we had in the first decade was not that many people had personal computers. There weren't that many people to sell to, and it was hard to identify them.

I remember having computers at my parents' house growing up. We had different desktop PCs, but my first laptop was an IBM ThinkPad laptop. It was big, bulky, slow and terrible.

I look at my son and his relationship to technology, and I think back to when I was six and how wildly different the world is in that regard. I see him using an iPhone and all this stuff, and then I think back to when I was six. We didn't even have computers in our houses at all yet. This is a huge gap between our experiences as children.

I'm a computer guy, and one of the things I did with the good fortune that 'Presumed Innocent' brought me was to buy one of the very first laptop computers. It weighed about eight and a half pounds, by the way.

The computer environment is radically different today. In the 1980s, it was like the Wild West, with a lot of open territory. Now, the cowboys have moved out and the farmers have moved in.

The weekends are really important to me; the use of technology is really important to me.

Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living.

Every company that made computers when we started the Mac, they're all gone.

I got into computers back in the early '80s, so it was a natural progression of learning about e-mail in the mid-'80s and getting into the Internet when it opened up in the early '90s.

I got my first computer at, I don't know, when I was 11 years old? 10?

I didn't own a cell phone for a long time. I was late in the game on that.

My dad used to work at IBM, so we used to get discounts on computers and stuff, and I did have a ThinkPad.

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

Personal computers were created by some teenagers in garages because the, the wisdom of the computer industry was that people didn't want these little toys on their desk.

Computer technology is so built into our lives that it's part of the surround of every artist.

After the Apple II was introduced, then came the Commodore and the Tandy TRS-80.

When the PC was launched, people knew it was important.

I think that what computers have done is just disastrous to the language.

My first computers were a Timex Sinclair and an Apple II.

When I first started running there were no computers. There was no such thing as a laptop.