"I'm angry with the likes of Microsoft and Apple. They've paid no attention to making computers easy to use. The problem with most computer companies is that they involve one geek making computer programs for another geek. There is nothing for the man on the street."
Professor Nicholas Negroponte, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (from speech at the Edinburgh Television Festival), August 1997
"Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done."
Andy Rooney
"The PC is a clumsy platform that will lose its importance to the Palm Pilot, Web TV and the mobile phone."
Dr Christof Ehrhart, VP Corporate Communications, BOL, Germany, January 2000
