Simon Cowell

For the music business, social networking is brilliant. Just when you think it's doom and gloom and you have to spend millions of pounds on marketing and this and that, you have this amazing thing now called fan power. The whole world is linked through a laptop. It's amazing. And it's free. I love it. It's absolutely brilliant.

British Entertainer

Helen Thomas

Everyone with a cell phone thinks they're a photographer. Everyone with a laptop thinks they're a journalist. But they have no training, and they have no idea of what we keep to in terms of standards, as in what's far out and what's reality. And they have no dedication to truth.

American Journalist

Gwen Ifill

As someone who asks questions for a living, there are few things that annoy me more than people who won't ask for themselves. Social media is a great help, but so is something as simple as turning on your television or powering up your laptop to watch a smart news show.

Lucy Bronze

The one thing in the world that I can't do without is my glasses. I don't really care about my laptop, I never answer my phone, and I don't care about trainers and stuff. But I'm pretty blind without my glasses or contact lenses.

English Athlete

John Bishop

As a child I qualified for free school meals, so I know I would have been in one of the families that needed help to gain access to a laptop.

British Comedian

Mark Udall

Truth be told, I'm much more comfortable in a pair of hiking boots or with a rack of climbing gear than in front of a laptop.

American Politician

Lucio Tan

My laptop helps me carry on my business functions and stay in touch with my executives when I'm abroad.

Filipino Businessman

Jonathan Lethem

I work on a laptop specifically so I can work in cafes and pretend I'm part of the human world.

American Writer

Ishita Dutta

It is easy for people to sit behind their laptops and assassinate somebody's character.

Indian Actress

Mani Ratnam

Characters are not created on paper or laptop alone.

Indian Director

A laptop is designed to be moved around, unlike a desktop which is stationary.

Portability

Laptops are used for both professional tasks like presentations and leisure activities like watching movies.

Work and Play

Unlike desktops, laptops run on a battery, so they don't need constant power supply.

Battery Life

 this incredible freedom of choice we have with respect to work, is that we have to make a decision, again and again and again, about whether we should or shouldn't be working. We can go to watch our kid play soccer, and we have our cell phone on one hip and our Blackberry on our other hip, and our laptop, presumably, on our laps.

The paradox of choice PIPE...

 Then, with my cell phone, I flipped the internet against itself and began to broadcast these live conversations to my online followers. This made them want to leave the safety of their laptops and meet us in person to have real conversations with real people in real life. And we did this. Thank you.

A Black man goes...

 So, I didn't do that. But design matters for a number of reasons. The most important being that it is the best way to make an inexpensive product. Most people make inexpensive products by taking cheap design, cheap labor, cheap components, and making a cheap laptop.

Nicholas Negroponte: One...

 triggered a massive improvement in laptop battery life. This is because deferring interruptions lets a system check everything at once, then quickly re-enter a low-power state. As with computers, so it is with us. Perhaps adopting a similar approach

How to manage your time...

 wild hyenas are notoriously difficult to observe so we're going to draw them in with sound so what we are setting up right now is something called a call up and using these speakers in a wee laptop we have we've got recordings of lions and hyenas

Hair-Raising Hyena...

 so you can imagine what's in there. I mean, I've read thousands of very personal letters from strangers all over the world. And these letters range from heartbreak and loss, to spats with parents or siblings. I keep them in a folder on my laptop,

How changing your story...

 the kids have connected laptops. They've leapfrogged. The change is absolutely monumental, because it's not just opening it up, but it's opening it up to the rest of the world. So yes, they're building roads, yes, they're putting in telephone,

Nicholas Negroponte...

 the world but to do it for the first time on their own terms now ironically these stories had the same effect on me I found myself every morning with my laptop thinking about all these souls and writing not the first sentences of

Blueprint for a quiet...

 magnets a lot of fun but pretty harmless or are they could it be possible for this small bar of metal to wipe the memory off this laptop destroying my life's work the theory is that if you leave your laptop near a sufficiently

Can Magnets Scramble...

 We find some backpacks. Let's just zoom in a little bit. And this is great. And all of the processing is happening in real time on the laptop. And it's important to remember