“I don't have a formal home recording studio, but I can record tracks on my computer upstairs in my office.” I CanHomeRecordsOfficeComputerTrackStudiosFormalUpstairsRecording Studio Author:Huey Lewis
“In my home office, I have two large, 30-inch computer monitors - a Mac and a PC. They share the same mouse and keyboard, so I can type or copy and paste between them. I'll typically do Web stuff on the Mac and e-mail and chat stuff on the PC.” I CanTwoHomeStuffShareTypeOfficeComputerCopiesMailInchesMiceKeyboardsMacsHome Office Author:Matt Mullenweg
“People tend to think that mathematicians always work in sterile conditions, sitting around and staring at the screen of a computer, or at a ceiling, in a pristine office. But in fact, some of the best ideas come when you least expect them, possibly through annoying industrial noise.” PeopleThinkingIdeasFactsConditionsOfficeComputerSittingScreensNoiseStaringAnnoyingMathematicianCeilingsSitting AroundPristine Book:Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality Source: Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality
“The vast majority of people do not have, nor will they ever have a personal computer. They haven't been exposed to Windows or Office, or anything like that, and in their lives it's unlikely that they will.” PeopleHavensOfficeComputerWindowMajorityExposedUnlikelyPersonal Computers Author:Stephen Elop
“I am a night creature, and I write from midnight till dawn, secluded in my office and surrounded by my collection of dragons (I have 400 of them). I only use Macintosh computers, which I name in dynastic order. Right now I'm using MacDragon 5. Only the devil is able to decipher my handwriting.” WritingUseAbleNightOrderNamesRight NowCreaturesOfficeComputerDevilDawnCollectionsDragonsMidnightHandwritingDecipherMacintoshSecludedMacintosh Computers Author:Carlos Ruiz Zafon
“I was with the 101st Airborne Division in Iraq, really in the middle of nowhere, about 80 miles south of Baghdad. And it was almost midnight, and I got a computer message from the home office of the Washington Post asking me to call them. I did call them and was told that I'd won the Pulitzer Prize.” HomeMiddleOfficeComputerMessagesAskingSouthIraqMilesPostsPrizeDivisionMidnightBaghdadMiddle Of NowhereAirborneHome Office Author:Rick Atkinson
“What's missing from the online experience is community. Married couples are still going to need something to do on Tuesday nights, right? And it's not going to be individually retiring to their offices to watch on their computers. It's: "We just put the meat loaf dishes away, let's go watch television." It's going to happen. We shouldn't be so led around by other models.” NeedsStillsHappensNightCommunityWatchesMissingTelevisionCoupleOfficeComputerMarriedModelsMeatOnlineRetiringDishesTuesdayMarried CouplesTuesday Night Author:Edward Allen Bernero
“Whatever job I had, I was always writing like crazy. All I ever liked about offices was being able to type up stories on the computer when no one was looking. I was never paying much attention in meetings because I was usually scribbling bits of my latest stories in the margins of the pad or thinking up names for my characters. This is a problem when you're supposed to be taking minutes of the meeting.” ThinkingWritingCharacterStoriesProblemAbleJobsNamesBitsAttentionCrazyMinutesTypeOfficeComputerMeetingsSupposed To BeMarginsPads Author:J. K. Rowling
“Corporations can deduct their planes, all their office expenses, their machinery, their computers and Teleprompters and whatever else they have. They can deduct their yachts, they can deduct their limousines, their planes, everything.” OfficeComputerPlanesCorporationsExpensesMachineryYachtLimousines Author:Malachy McCourt
“I like to photograph miniature constructed scenes - I'll buy a very sad cake decoration like a plastic computer for a dreary office birthday party and construct a wildly colorful scene to put on its screen, or do a series of dollhouse chairs frozen in ice cubes.” PartySceneOfficeComputerSeriesPhotographScreensIceChairsCakePlasticConstructsFrozenColorfulDecorationDrearyVery SadCubesMiniaturesBirthday PartyDollhouses Author:Matthea Harvey
“Writing relies on very few things, my friend. All you need to write is your brain, a way to convey the story into existence (pen, computer, whatever), and a place in which to do it (office, kitchen table, lunar brothel).” WayNeedsWritingStoriesExistenceBrainOfficeComputerMy FriendsTablesRelyKitchenPensKitchen TableBrothels Author:Chuck Wendig
“My children threw me a life line: "Return to your roots - food - and rewrite your first book, Diet for a Small Planet." I learned that if I could just show up, in this case, if I could just get myself out of bed, get to the computer in my tiny office at MIT, and start writing, help would start arriving.” IfsWritingFirstsChildrenBookHelpingShowsLinesCasesPlanetsReturnBedOfficeComputerRootsTinyMy ChildrenDietsIf I CouldArrivingMitLife Line Author:Frances Moore Lappé
“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
“For the blue-collar worker, the driving force behind change was factory automation using programmable machine tools. For the office worker, it's office automation using computer technology: enterprise-resource-planning systems, groupware, intranets, extranets, expert systems, the Web, and e-commerce.” ForceBehindsTechnologyOfficeComputerResourcesToolsMachinesBlueWorkersDrivingPlanningExpertsEnterpriseFactoriesCommerceCollarsDriving ForceE CommerceBlue CollarAutomationComputer TechnologyBlue Collar Workers Author:Tom Peters
“In the office, Michael sat behind our father’s desk, clicking away at the computer with his right hand, and making notes with his left. Ambidextrous freak.” HandsFatherLeftBehindsOfficeComputerNotesSatFreakDesksOur FatherAmbidextrous Book:Rogue Source: Rogue
“Sign by elevator put up by computer geeks in office building: REMEMBER: FIRST YOU PILAGE, THEN YOU BURN. THOSE WHO DO NOT COMPLY WILL BE SUSPENDED FROM THE RAIDING TEAM. In Mr Perfect” FirstsRememberPerfectTeamBuildingOfficeComputerGeekElevatorsSuspendedOffice BuildingsRaidingMr Perfect Author:Linda Howard