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

I look like a geeky hacker, but I do not know anything about computers.

Yeah, computers are going to take over the programming business because they have become so fast recently that they can solve the Halting Problem in five seconds flat.

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.

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 is a success. It is not popularity for our code but it is success for our goal.

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.

I am a very simple person. I do not use 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.

When I am not writing or tweaking my computer, I do embroidery. When I am not plunging into the past, tweaking, or embroidering, I am reading books about history, computers, or embroidery.

There is all these ways to instantly communicate - cars, computers, telephone and transportation - and even with all that, it is so hard to find people and have an honest communication with them.

I am really anti-option, so computers have been my nightmare with recording. I do not want endless tracks I want less tracks. I want decisions to be made.

I was a Duck Hunt and Mario guy, and stuff like that. I was never technologically driven. I never had all the cool, new toys. I was the youngest child, I was not the only child, so I was not spoiled as a kid. And, we were on the farm, so we did not have a lot. Also, with computers, I am not very good with them. I just check my email.

We are just into toys, whether it is motorcycles or race cars or computers. I have got the Palm Pilot right here with me, I have got the world smallest phone. Maybe it is just because I am still a big little kid and I just love toys, you know?

Anyway, all these computers and digital gadgets are no good. They just fill your head with numbers and that can not be good for you.

My whole life had been designing computers I could never build.

At our computer club, we talked about it being a revolution. Computers were going to belong to everyone, and give us power, and free us from the people who owned computers and all that stuff.

My goal was not to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers.

We've lost touch and allowed technology to take precedence over organic nature. But let's not forget that those microchips in our computers came from elements of the earth.

When I grew up we had gym at school, two or three dance classes after school, ice skating lessons, and all sorts of sports at our finger tips. We weren't glued to computers because they did not exist, so being active was all we knew.

In fact, technology has been the story of human progress from as long back as we know. In 100 years people will look back on now and say, That was the Internet Age. And computers will be seen as a mere ingredient to the Internet Age.