John Katzman

I am always making sketches of how information should look or mapping out a marketing campaign. When I present my notes, people start responding to them. Desktop publishing makes everything look slick. When you present sketches, it helps start the dialogue and collaboration.

American Businessman

Steve Jobs

The desktop metaphor was invented because one, you were a stand-alone device, and two, you had to manage your own storage. That's a very big thing in a desktop world. And that may go away. You may not have to manage your own storage. You may not store much before too long.

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.

Bill Gates

On my desk I have three screens, synchronized to form a single desktop. I can drag items from one screen to the next. Once you have that large display area, you'll never go back, because it has a direct impact on productivity.

Fred Ehrsam

If you are going to store your e-wallet on your own server, don't keep your e-wallet on your desktop, and make sure you use encryption. If you lose your computer, your bitcoins are lost forever.

Bre Pettis

If you want to be a person who buys stuff at the dollar store, you can be that person. If you want to make really cool stuff on your desktop and be the manufacturer, that is a lifestyle.

Tae Yoo

When something effective takes hold, it can change the world. Whether through a mobile device or a desktop computer, connectivity and creativity make it all possible.

American Businesswoman

David Baszucki

One great feature of Roblox is all mobile players join the same game servers as desktop players, connecting users across devices in a shared virtual world.

American Inventor

David Hewlett

You can make amazing sci-fi films if you want to with very, very little money and very advanced technology that can run on your desktop.

English Actor

Mark Zuckerberg

Mobile is a lot closer to TV than it is to desktop.

The desktop is a digital space organizing files, not a physical one.

Virtual Space

Users can personalize the desktop with their choice of wallpaper or icons.

Customizable Area

After booting, it's usually the first screen presented to the user.

Starting Point

A desktop computer is not portable and stays in one place.

Stationary Device

Compared to laptops, desktops often have more power and can be easily upgraded.

Power & Upgrade

Though often flat, desktops can have various shapes, sizes, and features.

Not Always Flat

The desktop is the surface where one typically does work or studies.

Workspace Surface

 and used that to design my robotic desk lamp. So I went and designed frame by frame to try to make this robot as graceful and engaging as possible. And here when you see the robot interacting with me on a desktop -- and I'm actually redesigning the robot, so, unbeknownst to itself, it's kind of digging its own grave by helping me.

Robots with "soul" PIPE Guy...

 instructions to move your mouse around on the screen, to run that clock widget on your desktop, play your internet radio, manage the files you're editing on the hard drive, and much, much more. Your computer's CPU is one heck of a multitasker! "But oh my gosh there's a very important mouse click

Inside your computer -...

 We live in an age where some of the great breakthroughs are not going to happen in the labs or the halls of academia but on laptops, desktops, in the palms of people's hands who are simply helping out for the search. But for me it's amazing because it's a metaphor for the time in which we live,

Adam Spencer: Why I fell...

 Let's just break this shelf. Okay, that shelf broke. I think beyond the icons, I think another really cool domain for this software -- I think it applies to more than just icons and your desktop -- but browsing photographs. I think you can really enrich the way we browse our photographs

Anand Agarawala: BumpTop...

 any shape you want I just drew a tee you put that in a magnetic field and it will actually magnetize but then when the field changes the magnetization orientation would change and you end up with something like rolling hills all remember the Microsoft desktop with

Computing with fluids PIPE...

 in order to make just this simple visible one. So I'm going to show you one that can be run on a desktop in two days in the next picture. So you start out with teeny fluctuations when the universe was at this point, now four times smaller, and so forth.

The design of the...

 that was actually created with this desktop printer and implanted as you see here. That was all new bone that was implanted using these techniques. Another more advanced technology we're looking at right now, our next generation of technologies,

Printing a human kidney...

 We're shaped with tricks and hacks that keep us alive. Still, we need some help with our intuitions. How can not perceiving reality as it is be useful? Well, fortunately, we have a very helpful the desktop interface on your computer.

Do we see reality as it...

 back to my desktop so I can use my full-size computer. And why only computers? We can just play with papers. Paper world is interesting to play with. Here, I'm taking a part of a document,

The thrilling potential...

 William Malloy used a desktop model to postulate the use of an inverted wooden