If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1 000 MPG.

When you want to do your homework, fill out your tax return, or see all the choices for a trip you want to take, you need a full-size screen.

Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.

Computers make it easier to do a lot of things but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.

Sci-fi films are the epic films of the day because we can no longer put 10 000 extras in the scene - but we can draw thousands of aliens with computers.

I see people putting text messages on the phone or computer and I think 'Why don't you just call?'

The desktop computer industry is dead. Innovation has virtually ceased. Microsoft dominates with very little innovation. That's over. Apple lost. The desktop market has entered the dark ages and it's going to be in the dark ages for the next 10 years or certainly for the rest of this decade.

I am not the only person who uses his computer mainly for the purpose of diddling with his computer.

One day soon the Gillette company will announce the development of a razor that thanks to a computer microchip can actually travel ahead in time and shave beard hairs that don't even exist yet

Computers are like Old Testament gods, lots of rules and no mercy.

And computers are getting smarter all the time: scientists tell us that soon they will be able to talk to us. (By they I mean computers: I doubt scientists will ever be able to talk to us.)

You'll see more and more perfection of that - computer as servant. But the next thing is going to be computer as a guide or agent.

I met Woz when I was 13 at a friend's garage. He was about 18. He was like the first person I met who knew more electronics than I did at that point. We became good friends because we shared an interest in computer and we had a sense of humor. We pulled all kinds of pranks together.

There are two distinctive classes of people today those who have personal computers and those who have several thousand extra dollars apiece.

The Internet "browser"... is the piece of software that puts a message on your computer screen informing you that the Internet is currently busy and you should try again later.

To better understand why you need a personal computer let's take a look at the pathetic mess you call your life.

This is what customers pay us for - to sweat all these details so it's easy and pleasant for them to use our computers. We're supposed to be really good at this. That doesn't mean we don't listen to customers but it's hard for them to tell you what they want when they've never seen anything remotely like it.

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.

What exactly is the internet? Basically it is a global network exchanging digitized data in such a way that any computer anywhere that is equipped with a device called a 'modem' can make a noise like a duck choking on a kazoo

We're going to be able to ask our computers to monitor things for us and when certain conditions happen are triggered the computers will take certain actions and inform us after the fact.

Buying the right computer and getting it to work properly is no more complicated than building a nuclear reactor from wristwatch parts in a darkened room using only your teeth.

Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.

Technically Windows is an "operating system " which means that it supplies your computer with the basic commands that it needs to suddenly with no warning whatsoever stop operating.

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

Computers may save time but they sure waste a lot of paper. About 98 percent of everything printed out by a computer is garbage that no one ever reads.

Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose.

I have a theory about the human mind. A brain is a lot like a computer. It will only take so many facts and then it will go on overload and blow up.

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.

All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men.

Because of the level of my chess game I was able - even against a weak opponent such as my younger brothers or the dog - to get myself checkmated in under three minutes. I challenge any computer to do it faster.

The most compelling reason for most people to buy a computer for the home will be to link it to a nationwide communications network. We're just in the beginning stages of what will be a truly remarkable breakthrough for most people - as remarkable as the telephone.

Entire new continent can emerge from the ocean in the time it takes for a Web page to show up on your screen. Contrary to what you may have heard the Internet does not operate at the speed of light, it operates at the speed of the DMV.

Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.

Getting out of the hospital is a lot like resigning from a book club. You're not out of it until the computer says you're out of it.

Experts agree that the best type of computer for your individual needs is one that comes on the market about two days after you actually purchase some other computer.

A computer terminal is not some clunky old television with a typewriter in front of it. It is an interface where the mind and body can connect with the universe and move bits of it about.

There is a real danger that computers will develop intelligence and take over. We urgently need to develop direct connections to the brain so that computers can add to human intelligence, rather than be in opposition.

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers, that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

Security is I would say our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers - organizing your lives staying in touch with people being creative - if we don't solve these security problems then people will hold back.

I don't even know which end of a computer one is supposed to gaze into. I've never used a computer.

Computers make me totally blank out.

This revolution the information revoultion is a revolution of free energy as well but of another kind: free intellectual energy. It's very crude today yet our Macintosh computer takes less power than a 100-watt bulb to run it and it can save you hours a day. What will it be able to do ten or 20 years from now or 50 years from now?

USER n.: The word computer professionals use when they mean 'idiot.'

Computers themselves and software yet to be developed will revolutionize the way we learn.

The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design but what's missing is the eyebrows.

Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations... They now need more and more expensive clerks even though they call them 'operators' or 'programmers.'

The computer is a moron.

It took us three years to build the NeXT computer. If we'd given customers what they said they wanted we'd have built a computer they'd have been happy with a year after we spoke to them - not something they'd want now.

It's very difficult to read a book on your computer.

My computer beat me at checkers but I sure beat it at kickboxing.

A computer once beat me at chess but it was no match for me at kick boxing.

I think the brain is essentially a computer and consciousness is like a computer program. It will cease to run when the computer is turned off. Theoretically it could be re-created on a neural network but that would be very difficult as it would require all one's memories.

Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service. The iMac is not just the color or translucence or the shape of the shell. The essence of the iMac is to be the finest possible consumer computer in which each element plays together.

Personally I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.

The Internet is a giant international network of intelligent informed computer enthusiasts by which I mean "people without lives." We don't care. We have each other...

The word user is the word used by the computer professional when they mean idiot.

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.