“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
“I'm as much my own master as anyone can be, without being the master of others. I can write anywhere - all I need is a couple of hours of solitude and a computer, and I can write a chapter. Since my work is portable, I can live anywhere I like.” NeedsWritingI CanHoursMy OwnMastersCoupleSolitudeComputerChapters Author:Stuart Woods
“One of my favorite programs that we didn't make is Rescue Time. It runs in the corner of my computer and tracks how much time I spend on different things. I realized that even though I was doing e-mail only a couple of minutes at a time, it was adding up to a couple of hours a day. So I'm trying to reduce that.” TryingDifferentRunningHoursMinutesCoupleComputerProgramMy FavoriteTrackCornersI RealizedDifferent ThingsMailRescue Author:Matt Mullenweg
“I'd like to think life has improved since 1850, despite the long hours we all seem to spend slaving over hot computers, but the psychological journeys remain the same - the search for love, identity, a meaningful place in the world.” ThinkingWorldLongSeemsHoursJourneyIdentityComputerHotMeaningfulPsychologicalDespitePlaces In The WorldLong HoursSearching For Love Author:Meg Rosoff
“Sit me at the keyboard of any computer in the world with access to the Internet, and in just 24 hours I’ll earn at least $24,000 in cash.” WorldHoursInternetComputerAccessCashKeyboards Book:Multiple Streams of Internet Income: How Ordinary People Make Extraordinary Money Online Source: Multiple Streams of Internet Income: How Ordinary People Make Extraordinary Money Online
“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.” KnowsSometimesHoursFourWrittenComputerSentencesJournalistSweatBulletsParagraph Author:Susan Elizabeth Phillips
“A man in Georgia was arrested for burglary after he left his Facebook account open on the victim's computer. But this is nice: He's only been in jail a few hours, and his status already says "In a Relationship!” MenLeftHoursNiceComputerAccountsVictimJailArrestedGeorgiaBurglary Author:Jimmy Fallon
“Although I am not averse to wasting a few hours playing computer games, I have never tried my hand at Doom. Judging by sales figures and testimonials, playing the game has to be an infinitely preferable experience to watching this pathetic excuse for a movie.” HandsGamesHoursFiguresJudgingComputerExcuseDoomPatheticComputer GamesTestimonial Author:James Berardinelli
“An international team of psychiatrists has flown to Redmond, WA in an attempt to discover exactly what makes Bill Gates tick. And, more especially, what makes him go cuckoo every half hour.” HoursHalfTeamComputerBillsInternationalGatesPsychiatristTickHalf HoursCuckoos Author:David Pogue
“I am the person I want to be. I got to teach and had some of the greatest times in my life learning that I had some teaching skills and doing some incredible things teaching 200 hours of computers a year to fifth graders, making them experts at certain things.” WantYearsPersonsCertainHoursTeachTeachingSkillsComputerIncrediblesExpertsFifthLife LearningFifth Graders Author:Steve Wozniak
“When I was growing up, I was as socially outcast as any nerd could possibly be. I was in the chess club, I brought D&D stuff to school, I had every game system you could imagine, I spent countless hours at arcades, computer camp, loud presence in the Latin Club. All that stuff.” SchoolGamesStuffHoursGrowing UpGrowingImagineComputerClubsChessLoudLatinCampsNerdOutcastArcades Author:Chris Hardwick
“All we can do when we think of kids today is think of more hours of school, earlier age at the computer, and curfews. Who would want to grow up in that world?” ThinkingWorldWantKidsAgeTodaySchoolGrowsCan DoHoursGrowing UpComputerBirthday60th BirthdayCurfew Author:James Hillman
“When I was a kid, I really liked playing chess, which is pretty geeky; I just enjoyed it - thinking, exercising my mind. And I found computers to be like an eight-hour day chess game.” ThinkingMindKidsFoundGamesHoursExerciseComputerEightChessEnjoyedChess GamePlaying Chess Author:Michael Birch
“A state-of-the-art calculation requires 100 hours of CPU time on the state-of-the-art computer, independent of the decade.” ArtStatesHoursComputerIndependentDecadesCalculations Author:Edward Teller
“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
“This revolution, the information revoultion, is a revolution of free energy as well, but of another kind: free intellectual energy. It's very crude today, yet our Macintosh computer takes less power than a 100-watt bulb to run it and it can save you hours a day. What will it be able to do ten or 20 years from now, or 50 years from now?” YearsWellsKindRunningTodayAbleEnergyHoursInformationRevolutionTenComputerIntellectualCrudeBulbsMacintoshMacintosh Computers Author:Steve Jobs
“Medical science in particular will get exponentially better, especially once computers will be powerful enough to digitally simulate entire human brains, meaning medical experiments that would normally take years can be digitally run taking only hours.” YearsHumansEnoughRunningHoursPowerfulBrainParticularComputerMedicalExperimentsHuman BrainMedical ScienceSimulate Author:Benjamin Stone
“I could go play some songs for two hours every week - play whatever I wanted to - and then also spend that time putting more music on my computer and getting into more things. It definitely informs the way that I think about music and I think in general, made me a more open-minded consumer of music.” ThinkingWayMadeTwoPlayWantedSongHoursWeekComputerConsumersOpen Minded Author:Chris Baio
“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
“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
“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
“Research is all well and good, but I definitely enjoy writing the most. I will happily sit at my computer and work on a single paragraph for hours. And there's no better feeling than when your writing is going well.” WritingWellsFeelingsEnjoyHoursComputerResearchParagraph Author:Debra Hamel
“I write two pages - that's all I write. It takes me about an hour. I've learned that's all I'm capable of and to push myself beyond that is foolhardy. It's a very delicate thing, and I will not abuse it. So I write two pages, then I get up from the computer.” WritingTwoHoursComputerPagesCapableAbuseGet UpI've LearnedTake MeDelicateFoolhardyDelicate Things Author:Kate DiCamillo
“We have a culture that is indirect in the extreme, where by the time you're five years old, you've watched tons of television, and have been subjected to what I call "the age of interruption," where everything is interrupted every minute. We have constant input from TV, computers, fax machines, telephones, etc. It's very hard for a modern American to have two hours of uninterrupted time. I know how it is because I insist on several hours of uninterrupted time each day, and I know how ruthless I have to be to get it.” KnowsYearsHas BeensTwoHardAgeCultureHoursKnow HowFiveModernMinutesTelevisionTvsComputerMachinesConstantExtremesFive YearsEach DayEtcTelephonesRuthlessInterruptedInputInterruptionsOld YouFive Year OldsIndirectFaxFax Machines Author:Michael Ventura
“We can open up our computers and Skype with someone, and we see them. It's like looking through a window. And we can surf the internet through our phones, and it's like our consciousness is far away. Or we can step through a airplane door and be in another continent a few hours away. So technology feels, to me, like the doors sort of already exist, at least emotionally.” FeelsHoursConsciousnessStepsTechnologyDoorsInternetComputerWindowPhonesAirplaneFar AwayContinentsSurfSkype Author:Mohsin Hamid
“Doesn't it seem ironic that people fear that we might become alienated by communicating with each other through computers, when we are already staring at these boxes in our living rooms for seven or eight hours a day, slack-jawed and saying nothing to anyone on either side and not talking back to it.” PeopleSeemsMightSidesHoursRoomsTalkingComputerSevenBoxesCommunicateEightStaringIronicLiving RoomNot TalkingSaying NothingTalking Back Author:Howard Rheingold
“I think Trump has made it really hard for people to read, period. He's made it hard for me anyway. Part of his evil is the way it constantly distracts us, constantly upends our horizon. To leave your computer for three hours now is to miss a year's worth of drama. This is programmatic and common to other autocratic regimes of our times.” PeopleThinkingWayYearsMadeHardThreeEvilHoursCommonMissingTrumpPeriodsDramaComputerMade ItOur TimeHorizonRegimes Author:Jonathan Raymond
“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
“By using money as the scapegoat and work as our all-consuming routine, we are able to conveniently disallow ourselves to do otherwise: 'John, I'd love to talk about the gaping void I feel in my life, the hopelessness that hits me like a punch in the eye every time I start my computer in the morning, but I have so much work to do! I've got at least three hours of unimportant email to reply to before calling prospects who said 'no' yesterday. Gotta run!” FeelsSaidEyeRunningAbleThreeHoursMorningCallingComputerYesterdayRoutineVoidHopelessnessEmailConsumingUnimportantProspectsScapegoat Author:Tim Ferriss
“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