Steve Case Most of the people who had PCs did not have modems and could not use those PCs as communicating devices. They really were using them for spreadsheets or word processing or storing recipes or playing games or what have you. – Steve Case
Steve Case And what we did with this new company in 1985 is we did start focusing on PCs instead of video game machines, because we learned the hard lesson about bringing a product to market in a consumer world where it’s very expensive to build a brand and get distribution and so forth. – Steve Case
Stephen Baker People didn’t stop spending money, they just spent it on things that complement their PCs. – Stephen Baker
Shiv Nadar My colleagues and I were engineers who worked for DCM’s calculator division. These electronic calculators used digital integrated circuits, and then they started using chips. The advanced versions of those chips were used for programmable calculators, which were the forerunners of PCs. – Shiv Nadar
Scott Michael Foster I remember watching my dad work on PCs, and I remember using Texas Instrument calculators in school. It was a bit nostalgic. – Scott Michael Foster
Sam Wood We’ve carried that over into the visual development as well. We’ve designed quite an exotic cast of characters, but the last thing we want is to dictate to the players how their PCs should look. What we want to do is inspire. – Sam Wood
Rodney Brooks With the revolution around 1980 of PCs, the spreadsheet programs were tuned for office workers – not to replace office workers, but it respected office workers as being capable of being programmers. So office workers became programmers of spreadsheets. It increased their capabilities. – Rodney Brooks
Peter Molyneux I think that PC gaming is as healthy as it’s ever been. I think there’s probably more people playing games on their PCs, I just don’t think they’re gamers. – Peter Molyneux
Peter Levine If you look back over the history of computing, it started as mainframes or terminals. As PCs or work stations became prevalent, computing moved to the edge, and we had applications that took advantage of edge computing and the CPU and processing power at the edge. Cloud computing brought things back to the center. – Peter Levine
Mitchell Baker Mobile devices are kind of at the opposite end of PCs, in that PCs are pretty open and you can do a fair amount with them, but many mobile devices aren’t. – Mitchell Baker
Michael Dell There are many different kinds of PCs. You have fixed, virtual, tablets, notebooks, ultrabooks, desktops, workstations. What you find in commercial PCs, business PCs, is that there’s a really long tail of usage on client devices. – Michael Dell
