I have many times thought I did the wrong thing, but the reason was not to be a medical doctor - it was just to have the information. But then, maybe I was wrong, I don't know.

I'm going to get myself one of those, um, movable computers - what do you call them... ? Laptops! I am bad. I still call my radio a wireless.

When I was at school studying biology, I wanted to be a medical researcher. I did work experience at St Mary's Hospital in London, and I begged them to let me see the post mortems. So the first time I saw a naked male was at 15, when I saw an 89 year old man who had died of a brain hemorrhage.

Doing a movie about computers between 1978 and 1982? You can't get much less sexy, less active than that.

Obviously, our children, who have been playing with their computers since the age of five or six, don't have quite the same brain as those who were brought up on wooden or metal toys, whose brains are certainly atrophied by comparison.

I joined the staff of EMI in Middlesex in 1951, where I worked for a while on radar and guided weapons and later ran a small design laboratory. During this time, I became particularly interested in computers, which were then in their infancy. It was interesting, pioneering work at that time: drums and tape decks had to be designed from scratch.

From computers to information technology to airplanes, it has been America's unique blend of republican government and free-market capitalism that has allowed us to surpass all other nations in history.

There were no PCs when I started programming on computers.

As computers have become more powerful, computer graphics have advanced to the point where it's possible to create photo-realistic images. The bottleneck wasn't, 'How do we make pixels prettier?' It was, 'How do we engage with them more?'

I think I was lucky to come of age in a place and time - the American South in the 1960s and '70s - when the machine hadn't completely taken over life. The natural world was still the world, and machines - TV, telephone, cars - were still more or less ancillary, and computers were unheard of in everyday life.

I started getting into Internet technologies and computers. I wasn't especially interested in being a musician, but I wound up finding my way back to being interested in music through computers.

My dad could be beyond brilliant but totally introverted. If we're talking about computers, he's on. Otherwise, he's a total recluse - he stays in the house and won't leave, and I'm like that. If I'm not working, I'm locked up in my room.

Music is composed on computers and other electronic equipment; producers don't want to spend money on orchestra.

People's computers are not getting more secure. They're getting more infected with viruses. They're getting more under the control of malware.

I was playing in bands and doing gigs from the age of 14 on. I stopped at the age of 28. Technology replaced me. As soon as I saw what computers can do, I didn't think there would be a point for a live drummer.

Computers are very powerful tools, but in the simulated world of the computer, everything has to be calculated.

I think of myself as a Hollywood hillbilly, but I'm sick of all these questions people ask about Alabama. 'Do you have an outhouse?' 'Is there a lot of inbreeding in your family?' They think all Southerners don't have computers and TV sets and that we're all still living in 1862.

I start every book with something that outrages me. I'm outraged by the FBI, the CIA, and computers that seem to have catalogued our lives. Power too often is accompanied by irresponsibility.

When the first computers started to come in, we tried to digitalize the seismological equipment.

My attitude toward graduate students was different, I must say. I used graduate students as colleagues: I gave them the best problems to work on, and I encouraged them.

Why is it that I notice so many brilliant scientists using Macs for their personal computers; why does the Lawrence Livermore & Berkeley Labs buy millions of dollars worth of Macs?

I do a lot of work on computers, but I am so practiced in drawing that I can draw it full size, and you can take the measurements off my drawings. It's like drafting, but it's a work of art - a really beautiful drawing.

I took computers in high school. I would do all my own programming, but I didn't see the future of computers for anything other than data processing. Who was going to use a computer for communications?

So the thing I realized rather gradually - I must say starting about 20 years ago now that we know about computers and things - there's a possibility of a more general basis for rules to describe nature.

In 1983, before computers came along, it wasn't easy to do electronic basslines and rhythms.

How can you allow the trading companies to locate computers closer to exchanges and flash millions of bids to give an unfair advantage?... Even professionals are losing faith in some aspects of the system.

We demand privacy, yet we glorify those that break into computers.

I've always been slightly embittered about computers because it was the only subject I failed at school.

Filecoin is a token with fundamental value. Filecoin is like Bitcoin, but miners amass hard drives instead of hashing computers.

People are mostly focused on defending the computers on the Internet, and there's been surprisingly little attention to defending the Internet itself as a communications medium.

In almost every technology area that we're ahead in, we're ahead in because the United States leads the world in computers.

Your genome knows much more about your medical history than you do.

As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.

Whenever anyone says, 'theoretically,' they really mean, 'not really.'

I'm a troglodyte. I think that's the word for it. Like an old school weird person who throws bricks at their computers.

The same computers that make it impossible for you to cheat on your income tax can ensure that the blood of your group is in the ambulance that picks you up from a car smash.

The internet is not for sissies.

For computer communications, computers talk in little bursts. They're not continuous like speech.

You can't gaze in the crystal ball and see the future. What the Internet is going to be in the future is what society makes it.

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

I'm pretty much a dinosaur in the studio. I like things hand-drawn, even today. The story artists use Cintiqs, but I'm the only person who hasn't completely converted to computers. I like the Cintiq, but there's something about the raw emotional power of using paper and pencil.

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

What we did not imagine was a Web of people, but a Web of documents.

No one ever said on their deathbed, 'Gee, I wish I had spent more time alone with my computer'.

People are much more inclined to believe and say bad things about you if you're famous.

I wrote because I needed to and wanted to. It never occurred to me that I'd become famous.

The records of adopted children are sealed in California. That seal is considered inviolable... The judge ruled that, because I was famous, he didn't have the same rights as other kids.

I'm astonished by my success. I wrote because I needed to and wanted to. It never occurred to me that I'd become famous.

If you see the magic in a fairy tale, you can face the future.

If you can see the magic in a fairytale, you can face the future.