John Roberts Quotes

I'm of the older generation. I accept the new technology, but I try to keep a bit of that away.

I'm the most computer illiterate human being that ever lived. My grandkids do everything for me, and then they say, "I won't even explain it to you, grandpa, 'cause you won't get it."

I had never touched a computer in my life before I came to Pixar.

It's a misconception that people over 65 do not use computers. They love them; they are always consulting Dr Google.

I'm a very simple person. I don't use computers.

As parents we're not nearly as computer literate as our children are.

With my wife Camille's help, I took to social networking. I'm working with the computers.

I am not at all computer literate in real life. I haven't yet found a reason to be. Once I find a reason why I need to be on the Internet, then I will be.

I've tried word processors, but I think I'm too old a dog to use one.

Computers rather frighten me, because I never did learn to type, so the whole thing seems extraordinarily complicated to me.

Gee, I am a complete Luddite when it comes to computers, I can barely log on!

Kids today are smarter than we ever were. And they've got computers, too, which is awesome. They're scary to me.

You can go to the Internet and know more than your mom in two seconds. It's crazy how fast teenagers have knowledge and information these days. So, I think it's harder to say, 'Your father and I know more than you.'

I was afraid of the internet... because I couldn't type.

I don't know much about technology anymore.

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

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

Computers used to petrify me before I figured it was just a matter of getting used to them.

As far as solving India's problems with technology is concerned, I think there are some wrong assumptions in making computing work at the grassroots. We need to go beyond the notion of technology being all about computers.

People over the age of thirty were born before the digital revolution really started. We've learned to use digital technology-laptops, cameras, personal digital assistants, the Internet-as adults, and it has been something like learning a foreign language. Most of us are okay, and some are even expert. We do e-mails and PowerPoint, surf the Internet, and feel we're at the cutting edge. But compared to most people under thirty and certainly under twenty, we are fumbling amateurs. People of that age were born after the digital revolution began. They learned to speak digital as a mother tongue.

You can and must understand computers now.

A lot of times, older people don't get the new generation.

To master a new technology, you have to play with it.

I've always been a little scared of technology, which is why I explore it.

I don't have a computer. I never have had one.