E. L. Doctorow Quotes

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 don't have a computer. A computer's a typewriter. I already have a typewriter.

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 don't really love computers.

People who are more than casually interested in computers should have at least some idea of what the underlying hardware is like. Otherwise the programs they write will be pretty weird.

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

I taught myself computer. Then Macintosh came along, and it became a really bad addiction. If I wasn't in show business, I'd have pocket protectors growing out of my chest. I do everything on it. It's kinda sick.

Computers absolutely changed my life. Before I had a computer, I had never written one thing. Not one thing. I'm a very bad speller and I was embarrassed by that. When I would type, the little mistakes would make me nutty, and I would never edit anything.

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.

More than any other modern tool, computers are a total mystery to their users. Most people never open them up to fix them or to see how they work.

It always helps to be a good programmer. It is important to like computers and to be able to think of things people would want to do with their computers.

Even though most people won't be directly involved with programming, everyone is affected by computers, so an educated person should have a good understanding of how computer hardware, software, and networks operate.

My love of computers, besides being practical, is very direct and visceral. I love the way things look on the screen.

I was around computers from birth; we had one of the first Macs, which came out shortly before I was born, and my dad ran a company that wrote computer operating systems. I don't think I have any particular technical skills; I just got a really large head start.

I just think there's a general interest in the world of computers.

Computers intimidate me.

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

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

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

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

My mom bought a computer in the '80s to do accounting, and she was so smart at computers that we spent all our time with them. My childhood was sitting on the floor of her office and figuring out how to program with my mom.

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.

Don't try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead.

I've always said the hardest aspect of the job of being a writer is writing.