I had a TV set and a typewriter and that made me think a computer should be laid out like a typewriter with a video screen.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I didn't know much about computers. I still worked on a manual Olivetti typewriter.
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.
I actually built a tiny computer as a junior high school project.
My love of computers, besides being practical, is very direct and visceral. I love the way things look on the screen.
Computers in classrooms are the filmstrips of the 1990s.
To make a computer do something that would take a human a long period of time was always interesting.
People in the industry foresee a time in which, for many people, the only thing they'll need on a computer is a browser.
If there's any object in human experience that's a precedent for what a computer should be like, it's a musical instrument: a device where you can explore a huge range of possibilities through an interface that connects your mind and your body, allowing you to be emotionally authentic and expressive.
I don't have any of the modern electronics at all. I know the Internet would be a distraction. I would see things that interested me and never get back to writing.
I don't have a computer. A computer's a typewriter. I already have a typewriter.