“At the risk of being a fuddy-duddy I don't have a computer; I don't have e-mail; and I really don't need something in my house that I would be sitting in front of for hours.” NeedsWould BeHouseHoursRiskFrontsComputerSittingMail Author:Marian McPartland
“Our kids are actually doing what we told them to do when they sit in front of that TV all day or in front of that computer game all day. The society is telling kids unconsciously that nature's in the past. It really doesn't count anymore, that the future is in electronics, and besides, the bogeyman is in the woods.” KidsPastGamesFrontsTvsComputerWoodsElectronicsComputer Games Author:Richard Louv
“Time spent in nature is the most cost-effective and powerful way to counteract the burnout and sort of depression that we feel when we sit in front of a computer all day.” WayFeelsPowerfulFrontsCostComputerBurnoutTime SpentBurn Out Author:Richard Louv
“Imagine you are writing an email. You are in front of the computer. You are operating the computer, clicking a mouse and typing on a keyboard, but the message will be sent to a human over the internet. So you are working before the computer, but with a human behind the computer.” WritingHumansBehindsImagineFrontsInternetComputerMessagesMiceEmailKeyboardsTyping Author:Yukihiro Matsumoto
“To many of us now, computers, silicon chips, data processing, cybernetics, and all the other innovations of the dawning high technology age are as mystifying as the workings of the combustion engine must have been when that first Model T rattled down Main Street, U.S.A. But as surely as America's pioneer spirit made us the industrial giant of the 20th century, the same pioneer spirit today is opening up on another vast front of opportunity, the frontier of high technology.” FirstsHas BeensMadeAgeTodayAmericaSpiritOpportunityTechnologyStreetsCenturyFrontsComputerModelsInnovationOpeningDataGiantsEngines20th CenturyChipsFrontiersPioneersProcessingSiliconOpening UpCyberneticsMain StreetCombustionHigh TechnologyPioneer SpiritModel T Author:Ronald Reagan
“I only can write a book every two years, you know. And I write very fast, but I'm not always writing every day. I needed a contact with different things, like nature, for example. I cannot be in front of a computer trying to tell a story.” KnowsWritingTryingYearsTwoBookDifferentStoriesFrontsExampleNeededComputerContactDifferent ThingsTwo YearsWriting Every Day Author:Paulo Coelho
“It is boring to haunt a writer, and even more so to haunt a celebrity. I would haunt a literary figure! Possibly some superhero, maybe even James Bond. Constant adventures, fights, beautiful women--much more interesting that watching a writer who taps on computer all day long, or a celebrity posing in front of cameras.” LongBeautifulFightingInterestingFrontsFiguresAdventureComputerCamerasConstantBoringSuperheroBeautiful WomenPosing Author:Sergei Lukyanenko
“I hate it, it is tedious... when I write for my act, it is very improvisational, I write bullet points, I cannot sit in front of a computer; that is not my style.” WritingHateStyleFrontsComputerI HateBulletsTediousDodging Bullets Author:Kathy Griffin
“Just putting a computer in front of a student doesn't make education better.” FrontsStudentsComputer Author:Joel Klein
“Most kids come home from school. They don't go to their TVs first. They go to the Internet. They check their emails, or some blogs, or some sites. Then they go watch TV. Other people are at work all day 9-5 in front of a computer. They see certain clips. We're not going to hide the fact that people use the Internet. We're going to try to be as interactive as possible with our fans. I'm currently on Twitter and Facebook and Flicker and Dig. I'm on all that stuff.” PeopleTryingFirstsFactsUseHomeKidsSchoolCertainStuffWatchesFansFrontsTvsInternetComputerChecksComing HomeSiteEmailBlogsClipFlickerInteractiveTwitter And Facebook Author:Jimmy Fallon
“I like to sit in front of the computer, going through files of music, and recording the final vocals, guitars and what- nots. But the windows are always open and you can hear the crickets, birds, chickens, and even the sound of rain hitting the studio. The farm is a great place to hang out in, learn from and create music.” SoundFrontsComputerBirdRainWindowGuitarFinalsStudiosChickensHanging OutFarmsHittingCricketVocalFilesSound Of Rain Author:Jason Mraz
“I chose to go to Arizona, because it was an opportunity to make something that I've never done. To work with different people and to have a good time when you're recording and to not have the whole thing be some sort of editing process in front of a computer, but to actually try and capture some sort of spirit.” PeopleTryingDifferentDoneWholeSpiritOpportunityProcessFrontsComputerGood TimesCaptureEditingDifferent PeoplesHaving A Good TimeArizona Author:Joel Plaskett
“I soon realized that I didn't have a great passion for academia and I didn't like sitting in front of the computer all day. I would much prefer to be a carpenter.” PassionFrontsComputerSittingAcademiaCarpenterGreat Passion Author:Jacob Hashimoto
“I liked interacting with students. I liked having coworkers. For a long time, I was really worried that sitting at home by myself in front of a computer was going to make me crazy.” LongHomeCrazyFrontsStudentsComputerLong TimeSittingWorriedInteractingCoworker Author:Gene Luen Yang
“Creating the characters is the most creative part of the novel except for the language itself. There I am, sitting in front of my computer in right-brain mode, typing the things that come to mind - which become the seeds of plot. It's scary, though, because I always wonder: Is it going to be there this time?” MindCharacterLanguageBrainWonderNovelCreativeFrontsComputerCreatingSittingScarySeedsPlotTyping Author:Elizabeth George
“If there's any advice I have to give, I would say it's that. If you're looking for a way to get closer to your kids, there ain't no better way than to grab 'em and read. And if you put them in front of a computer or a TV, you are abandoning them. You are abandoning them because they are sitting on a couch or a floor and they may be hugging a dog, but they ain't hugging you.” IfsWayGivingMayKidsAdviceDogFrontsTvsComputerSittingEmsHugCouchesBetter Ways Author:Maurice Sendak
“Real life is happening outside and not in front of a computer.” RealLife IsFrontsComputerHappeningsReal Life Author:Sigmar Gabriel
“Fancy computers are engaging in legalized front-running. The profits are clearly coming from the rest of us - our college endowments and our pensions. Why is this legal? What the hell is the government thinking? It's like letting rats into a restaurant.” ThinkingGovernmentRunningHellFrontsCollegeComputerProfitFancyRestaurantsRatsEngagingPensionEndowment Author:Charlie Munger
“Writing let me escape... It let me escape the insistent tug of my family, and its ongoing misery. Sitting in front of the computer, with the screen blank and the cursor blinking, was the best escape I knew. And there was plenty to escape from.” WritingFrontsComputerSittingMy FamilyLet MeMiseryScreensPlentyBlankOngoing Author:Jennifer Weiner
“I always told my team, "You have to believe that you are not in front of a computer, but that your canvas is a piece of paper. You have to believe this even if you have a computer in front of you."” IfsBelievePiecesTeamFrontsPaperComputerCanvas Author:Alex Abreu
“I carry an umbrella when I am outdoors and always wear sunscreen, even when I am sitting in front of a computer screen!” FrontsComputerSittingScreensUmbrellaSunscreenComputer ScreenWear Sunscreen Author:Fan Bingbing
“It's an incredible privilege to be able to sit in front of a computer and spend a few hours just thinking and writing.” ThinkingWritingAbleHoursFrontsComputerIncrediblesPrivilege Author:Nick Blaemire
“When I was writing my first novel, I smoked cigarettes. And when I think about what it was like to smoke, I remember exactly the feeling of sitting in front of my big old computer in that little room where I wrote my first novel.” ThinkingWritingFirstsLittlesFeelingsBigsRememberRoomsNovelFrontsComputerSittingSmokeCigarette Author:Dani Shapiro
“People don't work in factories, [they aren't] big muscular guys. The working class is flabby because they're sitting in front of a computer all day, but it's still their labor being extracted.” PeopleStillsBigsGuyClassFrontsComputerSittingLaborFactoriesWorking Class Author:Eric Drooker
“Though there is something cruel about being in Hawaii and you have a computer in front of you the whole time.” WholeFrontsComputerHawaii Author:Justin Theroux
“You can sit in front of a computer and have a blank slate and be completely overwhelmed by the possibilities and not get anywhere.” FrontsPossibilityComputerBlankOverwhelmedSlateBlank Slates Author:Rob Brown
“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 CanSoulThreeHoursFourFrontsComputerGet Real Author:Keith Fullerton Whitman
“It's funny, because I'm so associated with digital art and computer art, and yet I spend so little time in front of the computer.” LittlesArtFrontsComputerDigitalLittle Time Author:Keith Fullerton Whitman
“I became this guy that does drum programming, and I don't want to be that guy anymore. I don't want to sit in front of my computer for 18 hours programming 16 bars of music.” WantDoeGuyHoursFrontsComputerBarsProgrammingThis GuyThat Guy Author:Keith Fullerton Whitman
“I've never had so much fun being back at my job sitting in front of my computer. Compared to 10 months on the road, going home and sleeping in my own bed every night is really nice.” HomeJobsNightFunMy OwnSleepNiceFrontsMonthsBedComputerSittingEvery NightReally NiceGoing HomeSleeping In Author:Matt Berninger
“Believe me, that nap is better than sitting there for three hours and nothing's coming. I've learned that even if I've slept nine hours and I just finished breakfast, if I feel sleepy when I'm in front of that computer, I'll take a nap. And it really does help.” IfsFeelsBelieveDoeHelpingThreeHoursFrontsComputerSittingFinishedNineI've LearnedBreakfastBelieve In MeNapsSleepy Author:Sandra Cisneros
“There are certain things I am clueless about as far as the new technologies. I see these people in front of these computers all day and I don't know what they are doing - they are doing something, obviously - with Facebook, Instagram and all that. I am aware of it, but basically not in touch.” PeopleKnowsCertainTechnologyFrontsComputerInstagramNew TechnologyClueless Author:Robert De Niro
“We're progressing on a lot of fronts, but on the aspect of your responsibility - just the very basics of how we treat each other - before we learn mathematics and computers and science in school, and languages and all of this, the basis of it: What is it to be a human? What responsibility do you have?” HumansSchoolLanguageResponsibilityProgressFrontsComputerAspectTreatsBasesMathematicsBasics Author:Michal Rovner
“Today the patent office is obsolete. You just take whatever you do, tool up, and start production for six months. At the end of the six months you put the data on all the computer inputs all over the world and you got your business. You can make all your money, and then people can steal it, but by then it doesn't matter because you've made the money up front and you avoid wasting money in lawsuits. [My father] had all these kinds of ideas years ahead of others.” PeopleWorldYearsKindMadeIdeasEndsMatterTodayFatherFrontsMonthsOfficeSixComputerToolsProductionsStealingDataSix MonthsObsoleteInputPatentsLawsuitWasting Money Author:Paul Laffoley
“Part of doing Linux was that I had to communicate a lot more instead of just being a geek in front of a computer.” FrontsComputerCommunicateJust BeingGeekLinux Author:Linus Torvalds
“I am severely distracted these days. It's hard to sit in front of the computer, uploading bad music for hours, when you have a wonderful boyfriend who treats you like a Goddess.” HardFunnyHoursMusicWonderfulFrontsComputerTreatsThese DaysCuteGoddessDistractedBoyfriendBad MusicCute Boyfriend Author:April Winchell
“Technology is such a broad kind of term, it really applies to so many things, from the electric light to running cars on oil. All of these different things can be called technology. I have kind of a love-hate relationship with it, as I expect most people do. With the computer, I spend so many hours sitting in front of a computer.” PeopleKindDifferentLightRunningRomanceHateTermHoursTechnologyCarFrontsComputerSittingOilDifferent ThingsBroadsElectricLove HateLove Hate RelationshipElectric LightLove And Hate Relationship Author:Jeff Bridges
“It's often a matter of sitting in front of the computer and worrying. It's what writing comes down to--worrying that things aren't going to work out.” WritingMatterWorryFrontsComputerSittingWork OutGoing To Work Author:Khaled Hosseini
“The two circled around the back of the house, making sure that nobody saw them. Once inside, they found Patrick right where they had left him, sitting in front of Mark's computer. The only difference was that he was surrounded by bags of Doritos and cans of Mountain Dew. He looked up at them with wild eyes. You okay?" Courtney asked. I'm fantastic!" Patrick exclaimed. "This sugary drink is incredible!" Swell," Courtney remarked sarcastically. "He's wired on Dew.” TwoEyeFoundHouseLeftDifferencesSawsFrontsDrinkMountainComputerSittingOkayMarkIncrediblesFantasticBagsDewCourtneyDoritosMountain DewWild Eyes Author:D. J. MacHale
“I want to be sitting in front of my computer, where you can press a button to block out your junk mail. These two are my junk mail.” WantTwoFrontsComputerSittingPressesBlockMailButtonsJunkJunk Mail Book:Jellicoe Road Source: Jellicoe Road