This is what customers pay us for - to sweat all these details so it's easy and pleasant for them to use our computers. We're supposed to be really good at this. That doesn't mean we don't listen to customers but it's hard for them to tell you what they want when they've never seen anything remotely like it.

We're going to be able to ask our computers to monitor things for us and when certain conditions happen are triggered the computers will take certain actions and inform us after the fact.

Computers themselves and software yet to be developed will revolutionize the way we learn.

Computers make me totally blank out.

We demand privacy yet we glorify those that break into computers.

What I try to do is factor in how people use computers what people's problems are and how these technologies can get applied to those problems. Then I try to direct the various product groups to act on this information.

I got interested in computers and how they could be enslaved to the megalomaniac impulses of a teenager.

Right now computers which are supposed to be our servant are oppressing us.

What do we want our kids to do? Sweep up around Japanese computers?

Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010 and personal computers will do so by about 2020.