Ray Bradbury Quotes

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

I think my dad did legal work for someone who had a Packard Bell 8088, and they couldn't pay him, so they gave him a computer. I was initially not allowed to touch it, but that didn't last long. I started tinkering with it, and there were many times I screwed up the computer.

I started on computers with 'Billy Bathgate,' a little orange screen with black letters. I thought it was really cool, but it actually slowed me up for a while because it's so easy to revise, I tended to stay on the same page. I've learned to discipline myself.

I didn't know much about computers. I still worked on a manual Olivetti typewriter.

My dad got me an iMac, and I spent my whole childhood with my eyes glued to it. I was technically savvy and knew how to make it work for me.

I didn't even have a computer until like 10 years ago. I was still using a typewriter until 2002.

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.

That was something that shaped my thinking regarding Estonia: the idea that we should be getting our young people to work with computers.

It's fun to sentimentalize the 20th-century lifestyle and the 20th-century brain, but it helps nobody, it makes you look ancient, there's no going back, and you'd be miserable if you did.

I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.

I had never seen a computer when I went to college.

I got my first computer at the age of 6. To me, it was magic. By the time I was 12, I wanted to know the secrets behind the wizardry, and that started my journey toward computer programming. This was the early 1990s, when computers weren't built for the mass market.

I use an IBM Thinkpad. I just use it like a typewriter, but when I started using it in 1987, I thought I won't be able to write anymore, so I thought I'd go back to the typewriter. But you couldn't go back to the typewriter after using the computer.

I had a running compiler and nobody would touch it. They told me computers could only do arithmetic.

Computer science is the operating system for all innovation.

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

I absolutely know how to sit in front of a computer screen, that's for sure.

It would be ridiculous to ignore the speed and possibilities of the digital landscape.

I'm into computers and have been for a while.

When I was younger, I would look at a game with computers and still be fascinated by the possibilities.

The whole thought of a career with computers - given that hardly anybody even knew what they were - it wasn't even a concept.

I didn't even have a computer until I was twenty years old.

Software is the language of automation.

I am not a sportsperson. I used to spend all my time in front of a computer.

Every time there is a major shift in technology, it's been hugely exciting and scary at the same time. I have seen some really drastic changes in technology, like shooting only film to video to digital.