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“I'm just very, very slow. I would not make it as a journalist, I've got to tell you. I sweat bullets over every sentence, and sometimes, you know, a day will pass and I've written one paragraph, and I've been at the computer for four hours.”

Knows Sometimes Hours Four Written Computer Sentences Journalist Sweat Bullets Paragraph

Author:Susan Elizabeth Phillips

“The machinery of destruction is complete, poised on a hair trigger, waiting for the 'button' to be 'pushed' by some misguided or deranged human being or for some faulty computer chip to send out the instruction to fire. That so much should be balanced on so fine a point--that the fruit of four and a half billion years can be undone in a careless moment--is a fact against which belief rebels.”

Source: The Fate of the Earth: And, The Abolition

“A woman gave my dad $400 so we could get an apartment. We were living in a park. That's how we got started: Four hundred bucks, and look at me. When I donate a computer to a school, I never know what's going to come out of it.”

Knows Looks School Four Dad Computer Hundred My Dad Parks Apartment Look At Me Bucks Donate

Author:Gilbert Arenas

“One of the computer models for a four degree temperature rise would give rise to a 10 degree temperature rise in Africa. And bear in mind also that in the depth of an ice age the mean temperature drop compared to the present was five degrees.”

Giving Mind Mean Age Five Four Bears Degrees Computer Models Depth Ice Temperature Ice Age

Author:Martin Rees

“The computer field is intoxicated with change. We have seen galloping growth over a period of four decades and it still does not seem to be slowing down. The field is not mature yet and already it accounts for a significant percentage of the Gross National Product both directly and indirectly.”

Doe Stills Seems Growth Four Fields Products Periods Computer Accounts Decades Significant Mature Slow Down Gross Percentages Slowing Intoxicated Galloping

Author:Fernando J. Corbato

“I don't sit down at nine in the morning and begin writing and then take a break for lunch and stop at four. I have no structure like that. I am at my computer constantly, more or less attached to it. I live on-line and hate being off-line and don't care how unhealthy it is.”

Writing Care Hate Lines Break Morning Four Computer Structure Don't Care Nine Lunch Unhealthy

Author:Augusten Burroughs

“"Nothing is ever lost" means that what we are now goes all the way back through natural history. We are biological organisms and not simply computerized brains. By focusing totally on the present, thinking only about science and computers, and forgetting four billion years of life on this planet, we are losing perspective on who and what we are.”

Thinking Way Years Mean Lost Natural Forget Brain Four Planets Perspective Computer Losing Billions Organisms Natural History Years Of Life

Author:Robert Neelly Bellah

“The genetic code is not a binary code as in computers, nor an eight-level code as in some telephone systems, but a quaternary code with four symbols. The machine code of the genes is uncannily computerlike.”

Levels Four Computer Machines Eight Symbols Code Genes Telephones Binary

Book:River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life

Source: River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life

“I didn't realize how slow my four-year-old MacBook was until the web team wanted to start using it as the benchmark for a slow computer experience.”

Years Wanted Realizing Four Team Computer Four Years Macbook

Author:Chris Milk

“I can only stand to sit in front of my computer for three or four hours a day. Otherwise it can get really soul-sucking.”

I Can Soul Three Hours Four Fronts Computer Get Real

Author:Keith Fullerton Whitman

“I'm not afraid of computers taking over the world. They're just sitting there. I can hit them with a two by four.”

World I Can Two Four Computer Sitting Not Afraid

Author:Thom Yorke

“The more you pursue distractions, the less effective any particular distraction is, and so I'd had to up various dosages, until, before I knew it, I was checking my e-mail every ten minutes, and my plugs of tobacco were getting ever larger, and my two drinks a night had worsened to four, and I'd achieved such deep mastery of computer solitaire that my goal was no longer to win a game but to win two or more games in a row--a kind of meta-solitaire whose fascination consisted not in playing the cards but in surfing the streaks of wins and losses.”

Source: Farther Away: Essays

“Two things you should know about me; The first is that I am deeply suspicious of people in general. It is my nature to expect the worst of them. And the second is that I am unexpectedly good with computers.”

People Knows Should Firsts Two Four Worst Computer Two Things Suspicious

Author:Veronica Roth

“I do not live happily or comfortably With the cleverness of our times. The talk is all about computers, The news is all about bombs and blood. This morning, in the fresh field, I came upon a hidden nest. It held four warm, speckled eggs. I touched them. Then went away softly, Having felt something more wonderful Than all the electricity of New York City.”

Felt Cities Morning Four Wonderful Blood New York Fields Computer News Warm Our Time Bombs Touched Eggs New York City Electricity Nests Cleverness

Book:Evidence: Poems

Source: Evidence: Poems