A Quote by Charles Petzold

Owning a computer without programming is like having a kitchen and using only the microwave oven

Charles Petzold

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Charles Petzold
American - Businessman
Born: February 2, 1953

I like baked potatoes. I don't have a microwave oven, and it takes forever to bake a potato in a conventional oven. Sometimes I'll just throw one in there, even if I don't want one, because by the time it's done, who knows?

Mitch Hedberg

I very briefly had a microwave oven that I quickly gave away, because I could never work out what they do better than a regular oven.

James May

I'm more like an oven than a microwave.

Erykah Badu

With 'Scratch,' you create computer programs by snapping together graphical programming blocks, much like LEGO bricks, without any of the obscure syntax and punctuation of traditional programming languages. After creating an interactive 'Scratch' project, you can share it on the 'Scratch' website, just as you would share videos on YouTube.

Mitchel Resnick

Every time you turn on your new car, you're turning on 20 microprocessors. Every time you use an ATM, you're using a computer. Every time I use a settop box or game machine, I'm using a computer. The only computer you don't know how to work is your Microsoft computer, right?

Scott McNealy

I don't have a microwave oven, but I do have a clock that occasionally cooks stuff.

Mitch Hedberg

We are a nation that shouts at a microwave oven to hurry up.

Joan Ryan

They say you're not supposed to put metal in a microwave oven. They're right.

Steven Wright

Computer programming has been traditionally seen as something that is beyond most people - it's only for a special group with technical expertise and experience. We have developed 'Scratch' as a new type of programming language, which is much more accessible.

Mitchel Resnick

I was really looking at computers as a way to understand the mind. But at M.I.T., my mind was blown by having a whole computer to yourself as long as you liked.I felt a surge of intellectual power through access to this computer, and I started thinking about what this could mean for kids and the way they learn. That's when we developed the computer programming language for kids, Logo.

Seymour Papert

I put instant coffee in a microwave oven and almost went back in time.

Steven Wright

Not crazy in a 'let's paint the kitchen bright red!' sort of way. But crazy in a 'gas oven, toothpaste sandwich, I am God' sort of way. Gone were the days when she would stand on the deck lighting lemon-scented candles without then having to eat the wax.p28

Augusten Burroughs

There is a construct in computer programming called 'the infinite loop' which enables a computer to do what no other physical machine can do - to operate in perpetuity without tiring. In the same way it doesn't know exhaustion, it doesn't know when it's wrong and it can keep doing the wrong thing over and over without tiring.

John Maeda

The heart and soul of network programming is series programming, the weekly repetition of characters you like having in your house.

Dick Wolf

I used to do all my programming on a BBC computer. It was limited to 16 tracks, and you used the keyboard, not a mouse, to input, but I was using it so long, I got quite fast at it.

Vince Clarke

Every time someone does a Western movie, people flock to it. It's like, we're continually programming to people who are least likely to watch us. People in Nebraska aren't watching things on the computer, they're watching television. Why aren't we programming things for them? We only program things that appeal to New York and Los Angeles and in many ways spit on the rest of the country.

Edward Allen Bernero

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