Ross Perot Jr. Quotes

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.

They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.

People are good at intuition, living our lives. What are computers good at? Memory.

There were no PCs when I started programming on computers.

IBM existed a good 50 years before mainframes - we started with scales.

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

The IIc was Apple's first crack at a 'portable' computer, which it sort of was if you didn't mind a 7.5 pound weight, plus monitor, external floppy drive, and all the cables.

My programming language was solder.

I've said some stupid things and some wrong things, but not that. No one involved in computers would ever say that a certain amount of memory is enough for all time.

The notion of a record is an obsolete remnant of the days of the 80-column card.

UNIVAC: a device, which contained 20,000 vacuum tubes, occupied 1,500 square feet and weighed 40 tons; there was also a laptop version weighing 27 tons.

If you look back over the history of computing, it started as mainframes or terminals. As PCs or work stations became prevalent, computing moved to the edge, and we had applications that took advantage of edge computing and the CPU and processing power at the edge. Cloud computing brought things back to the center.

Computers were programmed to swap out error-prone, inconsistent human calculation with digital perfection.

The number of queries in a large dataset is exponential, and it's growing exponentially. No matter how fast you make your system, you're never going to be able to get all that information.

Everything that humans can do a machine can do.

That we plug in carts or CDs with megabytes of memory when only yesterday we were happy to have 64K or 128K in our Apple II and PC workhorses... that's nothing short of phenomenal.

You have to be very skilled in this industry. I grew in this industry; we created the very beginnings of this industry. We made the first PCs (personal computers) in the world.

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.

Data is cost. It takes money to create data, store it, clean it, and throw resources at it to learn anything from it.

One of the coolest days of my life was when I bought a 16K memory card upgrade and stuck it in my Apple II. I was kind of a geek.

In a way, digital cameras were like very early personal computers such as the Commodore 64 - clunky and able to do only a few things.

Big data sets are never complete.

You think NASA is going to be cutting edge, but they've got so many buildings that are just left over from the '60s. It's old.

When I was 13, I thought I was pretty hot stuff because I knew BASIC programming, self-taught on the family's Commodore 64. One of my crowning accomplishments was writing a silly little program that showed a crudely-drawn Space Shuttle lifting off in a cloud of pixelated smoke.

Manchester has always been a massively innovative city, loads of great scientific findings have come from Manchester. The first computer in the world was there and took up a whole building. So Manchester has always been very innovative.