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I remember having computers at my parents' house growing up. We had different desktop PCs, but my first laptop was an IBM ThinkPad laptop. It was big, bulky, slow and terrible.

In 2004, the iPod was a novelty, and tablet computers were a dream. Now we take for granted that we can see whatever we want whenever and wherever we want to see it, be it 'Grand Illusion' or 'Duck Dynasty.'

A reading center is inadequate for over 60,000 people, ... We know it's going to be very busy, and it's going to be great to have a library this size with this many materials and computers to serve this area of the county, which is now underserved.

After growing wildly for years, the field of computing appears to be reaching its infancy.

Apple has done much better at dealing with issues in the past couple years than it did before.

Apple Macs have been in the news for the last few weeks regarding a number of security issues. It's important that all computer users are protected against the latest attacks, and have their computers properly patched against vulnerabilities in the operating system. It would be a mistake to think that security flaws are only found in Microsoft's products.

As he got older, he just became intimidated by these computers. It was kind of devastating for him.

Anti-glare screens to prevent eye strain??? In my day, you didn't need an anti-glare screen. With the power they consumed, when you turned your computer on, the whole building darkened!

The MPC Computers Bowl, whose roots are based on a humanitarian model of service, would never attempt to discredit, humiliate or offend anyone.

A full audit of software located on our company computers discovered that an employee had installed software for which we had not paid licensing fees. Since then, we have implemented a robust software management program to more closely monitor installations of software programs on all company computers.

The big question society will have to answer is whether it wants computers thinking like humans?

The immediate removal of the unclassified computers used by Dr. Deutch,

The future of television is not on television but online. A majority of us are turning to our computers and mobile devices for news and entertainment, Millennials especially.

The idea that computers can ever replace teachers and schools reveals a deep lack of understanding about the role leadership plays in student success.

The idea was to sell computers directly to the end user, without the markup of the dealer ... have a lower level of inventory and a higher level of service,

The increase in e-filing is really being driven by people using their home computers. E-file is the safe, accurate way for taxpayers to quickly finish their taxes and get a refund.

All in all it is a reasonably good story. The whole appliances, computers, electrical segment has been pretty resilient, and the franchise model they have got is a pretty robust one.

The hurricane is a dreadful natural disaster, and it's sickening to think that hackers are prepared to exploit the horrendous situation in an attempt to break into computers for the purposes of spamming, extortion and theft.

The Mac's a symbol of a whole revolution, and most of us that participated in it from the beginning and believed in it bought into these new ideals of computers to really help people, and not something that you had to fight, memorize and learn, ... That whole revolution just continues in our hearts to this day.

The manufacture and running of all the world's computers, the toxicity of the hardware mountains that we currently dump on other countries; all this can be totted up on the environmental account of web-users and its authors.

The diverse threats we face are increasingly cyber-based. Much of America's most sensitive data is stored on computers. We are losing data, money, and ideas through cyber intrusions. This threatens innovation and, as citizens, we are also increasingly vulnerable to losing our personal information.

The finance and services sectors reported the highest expectations for capital spending, especially on computers and communications equipment.

The first quarter was better because of better-than-expected extra demand for personal computers.

The computer industry is not in the best long-term interest for us. The increased use of computers, e-mails, computing games and other electronic entertainment gadgets has cut into people's free time.

The computers are theirs as long as they stay involved with the program.

The computers get us started. Then we love it by hand.

The computers have to talk to each other. The networks have to work. There are many ingredients. With all our fancy computers and networks, we still can't predict the Earth.

The computers that were secretly developed to go to the moon are now on your desktop,

These are best-of-breed computers for consumers looking for the best technology available for advanced multimedia and entertainment applications.

A computer room that used to have racks and racks of computers can collapse all that into a much smaller space and save money when running their systems.

It just bugs me that if there is a recount there's no good way to check on it. Let's face it. You work with computers every day. You know there's more ways than hacking that you can tamper with it.

It's kind of like music from outer space. It's alien music. I've been getting into computers a lot, doing a lot of experimenting and sampling.

There's an evolution from, today we tell computers to do stuff for us, to where computers can actually do stuff for us. For example, if I go and pick up my kids, it would be good for my car to be aware that my kids have entered the car and change the music to something that's appropriate for them.

Its all wrong, ... Lots of little computers are a terrible idea, you can't see the big picture because it's been you know, sliced and diced and it's stored in so many different locations. We've fragmented this information. It's impossible to know what's going on.

Every one of today's smartphones has thousands of times more processing power than the computers that guided astronauts to the moon.

E-commerce businesses, even e-commerce specialists, have yet to realize that the WWW is first and foremost an emotional experience. Few websites reflect this important priority.

It's not a portable and we're not asking companies to redo their networks. On the corporate side, it's one of the smallest computers on Earth.

That's the beauty of college basketball. Anybody can compete on the floor -- not just in the computers or polls -- and earn themselves a national championship.

As a consequence of our current dependence on computers, some Y2K-related failures could have noticeable effects on the economy,

As a child, I did what any normal kid who grew up without any electricity would do - I spent countless hours working on a computer wired to my parents' car battery... and learned how to code. This natural passion for computers lead me into the Internet market during the late 1990s and early 2000s.

This order means schools that do not currently meet this standard will be spending more dollars on items like classroom computers and technology, science lab equipment, books and instructional materials or even higher teacher salaries,

They have computers that can tell you if a song's a hit.

They made off with four computers and some petty cash. Some money that was left around to buy stamps and the like.

They don't need to go to all that extra effort to write a virus for Macs. There are plenty of unprotected Windows computers out there.

It's a standard part of the investigative process in any situation like this When the district attorney needs information, wants to see what e-mails have been exchanged, that kind of thing, they'll take computers from an office, they'll image the hard drives and then they'll return it.

You have a growing network and the computers need to be advanced. Most counties have a network administrator and staff.

We tried to stay true to the Thunderbirds. We don't use any computers in this movie, it's all painfully real.

What the chart reveals is that spammers and virus writers can exploit unprotected computers anywhere in the world to send out their unwanted messages.

What's great about the gold recovery in the recycling of discarded computers is the fact that there is no guesswork on the amount of gold you actually have. If it takes 10 computers to recover an ounce of gold, and you want to recover 100 ounces, then you'll need 1000 computers.

We monitor it at home from our computers. If something breaks down, we get a phone call, log on, and we can figure out what the problem is.

We moved all our computers out around 10 p.m. (Monday) but were going to have to find a new place.

We're going so into computers and technology today that I think we're losing the human touch on a lot of things. And as far as I'm concerned, police work still requires the human touch. You still have to be one-on-one with people. I'm going to continue to try to maintain our one-on-one, person-to-person thing with our dispatcher. If you call our police department 24 hours a day, you still get a human being. I'm a firm believer that every dark cloud has a silver lining, even if you just learn a little bit along the way from it. And if that brings morale up, then I'm glad it did. I'm sure glad I was given the opportunity.

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?

It was quite a disaster. Luckily people were in the building and they were able to cover computers and copy machines with plastic covering to try to minimize damage as best they could.

We had to buy furniture and computers; we had to put a teacher's desk, wall unit and file cabinet in each classroom. We ordered all those items six months ago from different manufacturers. When they were delivered, they were stored and some pieces had to be assembled. We ordered half a million dollars worth of textbooks. It took a great deal of planning by everyone in the school district - from the custodians planning on how to schedule cleaning to how we were going to supply books and teachers. It was an unbelievably complex project,

This was the product that inspired people in graphic design, and students, and other creative people. It was the whole idea of computers not just being something you would see in the office.

We were one of the first in the area to offer the service. The computers allowed us to take smaller samples and, in turn, save more lives.

The more reliant we become upon computers and information systems, the more vulnerable we become to cyber-terrorists who will conceive unlimited ways to cripple our infrastructure, our power grids, our banking systems, our financial markets, our space based communications systems.

It makes life difficult ... because law changes very slowly. We have judges who did not grow up with computers and so many do not understand the technology and issues it raises.

It's like when the dinosaurs were gone, they never came back. The same goes for Bob, he can't be replaced. He's an old-time cop. He's not the type of guy that relied on computers to solve a case. He relied on facts and evidence. He's old school.

There were no computers retrieved, but there were indications of equipment taken out, there were computer parts.

There were no PCs when I started programming on computers.

This is the highlight of the show, this is the future of handheld computing right here, ... The Springboard expansion slot will do to handheld computers what the PCMCIA (Personal Computer Memory Card International Association) expansion slot did for PCs -- it opens the door to a whole new realm of possibilities.

I am a child of digital generation. I have done most of the records with Rilo Kiley on computers, on Pro Tools or other digital programs.

I fear that machines are several centuries ahead of the mortals.

College is a be-all, end-all ? you make more money if you get a college degree. There's not a level playing field. In Paterson, we didn't have textbooks, but then I moved up here and there's five computers in every classroom.

I build quantum computers that store information on individual atoms and then massage the normal interactions between the atoms to make them compute.

If I'm at the office, I can get an e-mail on my computer with a voice mail that somebody left for me at home.

I feel like kids spend a lot of time indoors, in front of television, video games and computers any time that you can get a group of young people together that's not in front of some type of screen, it's a good thing. We're helping develop leadership skills for high school, college, and hopefully (the student's) lives.

I detest computers. If you had a device like that 30 years ago that froze up constantly, misbehaved constantly, lost your information and screwed up when you needed it the most, it would have been laughable.

I can write anywhere. But I don't use a computer, and I could never write on a laptop. I hate the sound of computers; it's too dull, like it's not doing anything for you.

I can predict what some of you are reading this week: the story of two college dropouts who found fame and fortune building personal computers for the masses, how the company had its ups and downs and was declared about to die on many occasions. Finally, in an unexpected turn of events, the company conquers another field entirely, that of portable music players.

I do think it's appropriate for people to be concerned about identity theft, therefore it's not surprising that it has become a topic of interest. One of our biggest efforts has been to really educate consumers about the importance of taking the security of the Internet and their computers seriously.

I don't think they really need Windows XP distribution. They already have deals with the four largest PC manufacturers, and that will give them the means of getting onto the desktop anyway, without having to do a deal with Microsoft.

For the last decade, we have been amazed and delighted by what we can do online. And yet people feel increasingly powerless to stop unscrupulous individuals and companies from infecting their computers with programs that they didn't request. The providers of Internet services and software simply must get this problem under control so the users can realize the full potential of their access to the Internet.

Google's architecture can scale. Using commodity hardware, Google can deploy more capacity at a lower cost and more quickly than a competitor relying on a system built with brand-name hardware,

For the first time this year our commercials will be downloadable on to video players and computers. It is the way consumers want to be reached.

The Internet lets us do that for first time in the history of computers. It lets us, in effect, make them into one big parallel supercomputer.

The market was wrong. This year televisions are selling very well and people are upgrading their computers and cell phones, but everyone had been very bearish about electronics makers. That's what is being corrected now.

The McAfee Internet Security Suite offers everything today's home and small business user needs for securing and protecting the crucial information that resides on their computers by providing multiple layers of prevention, protection, and detection for both inbound and outbound Internet threats.

And computers are getting smarter all the time: scientists tell us that soon they will be able to talk to us. (By they I mean computers: I doubt scientists will ever be able to talk to us.)

We want to stand at the intersection of computers and humanism

Computers seem a little too adaptively flexible, like the strange natives, odd societies, and head cases we study in the social sciences. There's more opposable thumb in the digital world than I care for; it's awfully close to human.

These are the first personal computers in history with dual processors, ... This is the kind of stuff many of our customers do every day and this can save them an hour or two each day.

The average consumer lives in a world of more digital content and information than ever before. Windows Vista will make personal computing more useful, powerful, connected and fun, redefining both how we use computers in our homes and how we are entertained.

The message that personal computers can do neat things, that software is great stuff, that there's an exciting opportunity here and Microsoft is involved in it, that's a worthwhile message for Microsoft to get out.

Apple had a terrific quarter -- we sold a record number of Power Macintosh G3 computers, customers love our new PowerBooks, Apple earned its highest profit in years and we ended the quarter with the lowest inventory level among the major PC players,

A computer is like an Old Testament god, with a lot of rules and no mercy

It's a non-issue for us... We sell computers.

I believe that computers are the most incredible tool we can use to feed our curiosity and inventiveness -- to help us solve problems that even the smartest people couldn't solve on their own, ... All Things Considered.

The digital decade is not just about any particular aspect of computing, taking enterprises, knowledge workers and homes and building standards that connect all of those together. The key piece in the center is trustworthy systems, systems that do what you expect on an extremely reliable basis. So in each of these areas we have new scenarios, new ways that people will be using their computers that they never did before.