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Bill Gates Business Magnate, Philanthropist
Computer

"There was a magical breakthrough when the computer became cheap and we could see that everyone could afford a computer."

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Bill Gates Business Magnate, Philanthropist
Computer

"Anything that someone's interested in should be very, very easy to call up onto the screen. And in fact the computer over time will see what you're interested in and make that immediately available without your having to be give any commands at all."

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Jim Carrey Actor, Comedian
Computer

"Be grateful. Find something to be grateful for. Don't do too many things that make you feel like you deserve to lose because we do program our own computers. I believe there is a plus and a minus column and if you end up on the minus column, your own conscience will make you lose."

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Melinda Gates Philanthropist, businesswoman
Computer

"My undergraduate work was in computer science and economics. It just happened to be at that time when 34 percent of computer-science majors were women. We didn't realize it was at the peak at the time."

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Eminem Rapper, songwriter, record producer
Computer

"If you can afford...a computer, you can afford to pay $16 for my...CD."

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Ray Bradbury Author
Computer

"I don't understand this whole thing about computers and the superhighway. Who wants to be in touch with all of those people?"

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Seth Godin Author, Entrepreneur
Computer

"Laptop computers dramatically increased the time people spend doing work. (The internet dramatically decreased it, so we're even)."

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Marshall McLuhan Philosopher, Media Theorist
Computer

"The potential of any technology is always dissipated by its users involvement in its predecessors...Computer are still serving mainly to sustain precomputer effects."

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Philip Roth Novelist
Computer

"When I have a first draft, I have a floor under my feet that I can walk on. Then, especially with the help of the computer, rewriting is so easy to do with the computer, much easier than it used to be with the typewriter. So the books go through numerous drafts."

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