Computers : (20) " I started on an Apple II, which I had bought at the very end of 1978 for half of my annual income. I made $4,500 a year, and I spent half of it on the computer. " - Bill Budge " Computing is no more about work – it’s all about making work happen with computers. " - Pranav Mistry " As one of the most important global events for our industry, I look forward to Computex each year. " - Lisa Su " If you need to do a movie where you have an army of 10,000 soldiers, that’s a very difficult thing to shoot for real. It’s very expensive, but as computer graphics techniques make that cheaper, it’ll be more possible to make pictures on an epic scale, which we haven’t really seen since the ’50s and ’60s. " - John Knoll " My favorite computer of all time? The Apple II that got me started, of course. " - Robert Scoble " The idea behind digital computers may be explained by saying that these machines are intended to carry out any operations which could be done by a human computer. " - Alan Turing " I think most people in the developed world would admit to carrying some sort of handheld device, whether it’s a laptop or a cell phone, at all times. " - Alexis Denisof " Regardless of how it’s done, transaction costs will continue to plummet as computers get more powerful. Low transaction costs are a wonderful thing if you’re in the transaction business. They’re wonderful for consumers too, making it cheaper and easier to buy things and creating new things to buy. " - Nathan Myhrvold " Most developer tools try to shield you from actually writing code in constructing the GUI bits or the database bits. Yet when you do write code you usually get glass teletypes where high tech is keyword coloring. " - James Gosling " I actually am a computer nerd. " - David Hewlett