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Kevin Kelly | computers

The great advance of personal computers was not the computing power per se but the fact that it brought it right to your face, that you had control over it, that were confronted with it and could steer it.

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Niklas Zennstrom | computers

With our work at Kazaa, we began seeing growing broadband connections and more powerful computers and more streaming multimedia, and we saw that the traditional way of communicating by phone no longer made a lot of sense.

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Jack Kilby | computers

I think I thought it would be important for electronics as we knew it then, but that was a much simpler business and electronics was mostly radio and television and the first computers.

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Carrie-Anne Moss | computers

I’m a very simple person. I don’t use computers.

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Richard Stallman | computers

When I launched the development of the GNU system, I explicitly said the purpose of developing this system is so we can use our computers and have freedom, thus if you use some other free system instead but you have freedom, then it’s a success. It’s not popularity for our code but it’s success for our goal.

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Justin Long | computers

I look like a geeky hacker, but I don’t know anything about computers.

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Steve Coogan | computers

I am of the very last generation who didn’t have computers at school. As we grow old we’ll become something of an aberration.

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Tim Berners-Lee | computers

We could say we want the Web to reflect a vision of the world where everything is done democratically. To do that, we get computers to talk with each other in such a way as to promote that ideal.

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John Hawkes | computers

The only thing I do on a computer is play Texas Hold ‘Em, really. Obviously my cell phone is a computer. My car is a computer. I’m on computers every day without actively seeking them out.

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Alvin Toffler | computers

The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I’m talking about an organic computer – about biological substances that can function like a semiconductor.

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