Pastoral Resources

It always helps to be a good programmer. It is important to like computers and to be able to think of things people would want to do with their computers.

The power of the computer is starting to spread.

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.

The value of having a computer, to me, is that it'll remember everything you do. It's a databank.

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

Learning can take place in the backyard if there is a human being there who cares about the child. Before learning computers, children should learn to read first. They should sit around the dinner table and hear what their parents have to say and think.

Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world.

We don't want to turn the TV into a computer.

One of the biggest challenges we had in the first decade was not that many people had personal computers. There weren't that many people to sell to, and it was hard to identify them.

One of the problems with computers, particularly for the older people, is they were befuddled by them, and the computers have gotten better. They have gotten easier to use. They have gotten less expensive. The software interfaces have made things a lot more accessible.

The computer would do anything you programmed it to do.

I'm projecting somewhere between 100 million and 200 million computers on the Net by the end of December 2000, and about 300 million users by that same time.

Even when I was studying mathematics, physics, and computer science, it always seemed that the problem of consciousness was about the most interesting problem out there for science to come to grips with.

Don't try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead.

The rise of computer crime and armed robbery has not eliminated the lure of caged cash.

Never ask what sort of computer a guy drives. If he's a Mac user, he'll tell you. If not, why embarrass him?

I have a computer screen near my seat where I monitor the overall health of the vehicle and pick up any problems that might be occurring early on or once we see any kind of a malfunction or anything unusual that's happening, we can look at the data and figure out what that is.

Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading manuals without the software.

The world is a tougher place to live in than it was back then, as we come into the computer age.

There is no significant man-made Global Warming underway and the science on which the computer projections of weather chaos are based is badly flawed.