Robert Stephens Quotations

Until a couple of years ago, if you were in a wheelchair, you weren't expected to work,

We believe you're either cool early in life or later in life, and it's much better to be cool later in life,

Unless the worm has already been removed from the computer, it could update itself and send out a huge package of garbage on the Internet on the 16th, ... The second time around it could cause massive damage.

The only people who have time to learn all this stuff are geeks who stay home on Saturday night.

People will live with problems for a lot longer than they need to.

But this is the time to make this push (to cut beneficiary numbers), you'd be stupid not to . . . when there is a jobs shortage.

I was in there trying to hook up a phone. It happened real fast, but yet in slow motion.

You had all these naked ladies sitting around, and a computer geek with a clip-on tie is sitting there fixing the computer,

Did you ever give medication to a child to make it sleep?

Did you ever give medication to a child that wasn't needed?

Don't just tell me piracy's illegal, I know that already. Why don't you tell me what software you're using to prevent piracy and I may choose not to buy that CD, because I don't like that anti-piracy software. It's too restrictive.

These actions were made necessary by the sluggish economy, which has continued beyond most industry estimates, and has now spread into Europe and Asia,

You wouldn't think rock stars use computers, ... But rock stars use laptops on the road, so actually they're the most finicky, demanding people. They're great practice for us.

They're worried about people copying it. It is easier than before, not only to copy a CD, share it with a few friends, but share it with millions of people you don't even know. So that's what they're worried about.

This little boy did not die of diphenhydramine toxicity. That's not what happened.

The book is not going to solve every single problem, but what it will do is give you tips on just about any situation,

The book is basically a compilation of all the questions we get asked, but we tried to do it different, ... Who the hell wants to buy a book on how to fix a computer? Nobody wants to wake up in the morning and do that. But we made it entertaining and covered the most basic stuff.

Nobody asked what the parents were giving. Nobody. What do we do with that? Can you rely on that? That sort of sloppy, horrifying, inconsistent, scientifically unreliable material to send a woman to prison for something she didn't do?

If there is one silver lining, it's that these situations help raise awareness about the usefulness of a safety belt, ... Think of a computer with an Internet connection like an open door. Once in a while, check the lock, turn the key and see that it works.

If I want to share a song off an album with a friend, I ought to be able to do that.

All she cared about was taking care of those kids and doing the best she could for them and she did a wonderful job.

Even now, when I do a slide show of the Geek Squad story, the first slide is a photo of ramen noodles. Because for me, ramen noodles are the international symbol for struggle.

The family of Dane Heggem has been betrayed.

Next thing you know, we're like the computer people for the movie industry in the Twin Cities

When you have no money for marketing, everything you do is marketing.

Advertising is a tax for having an unremarkable product

Advertising is the tax you pay for being unremarkable.