“So, the point was to be able to have a medium that would record all the connections and all the structures and all the thoughts that paper could not. Since the computer could hold any structure in any form, this was the way to go.” WayAbleFormRecordsPaperComputerConnectionsStructureMediums Author:Ted Nelson
“The single most important technique for making progress is to write ten words. Doesn't matter if you're badly stuck, or your day is completely jam-packed, or you're away from your computer - carry a small paper notebook and write a sentence of description while you're waiting on line at a coffee shop. I think of this as baiting a hook. Even if you have a few days in a row where nothing comes except those ten words, I find that as long as you have to think about the novel enough to write ten words, the chances are that more will come.” IfsThinkingWritingLongImportantMatterEnoughWaitingLinesChanceNovelProgressTenPaperComputerSentencesTechniqueCoffeeStuckShopsDescriptionHookJamChances AreNotebookCoffee Shop Author:Naomi Novik
“The traditional notion of an architect having a vision of a building and then drawing it either on paper or on a computer and then constructing it isn't really how architecture works and in reality the computer has a lot of influence on design.” RealityVisionInfluenceDesignBuildingPaperComputerNotionArchitectureDrawingTraditionalArchitect Author:Michael Hansmeyer
“I will tell you one other thing about money: when you don't have it, it sure as hell affects the quality of people's health, and their relationships. And paper money isn't even real today, right? It's all really ones and zeros in computers today. But at the same time, if you don't have it, it certainly affects the quality of your life.” PeopleIfsRealTodayQualityHellPaperComputerPaper Money Author:Tony Robbins
“I have a real aversion to machines. I write with a pen. Then I read it to someone who writes it onto the computer. What are those computer letters made of anyway? Light? Too insubstantial. Paper, you can feel it. A pen. There's a connection. A pen goes exactly at your speed, whereas that machine jumps. And then, that machine is waiting for you, just humming "uh-huh, yes?” FeelsWritingMadeRealLightWaitingPaperComputerLettersConnectionsMachinesSpeedPensAversionWaiting For YouHumming Author:Fran Lebowitz
“If I tried to write long-hand, I suppose I'd never finish a novel. I edit too much as I write - the paper would be "white-out" and sharpie marks. Writing with a computer works for me, so I stick with it.” IfsWritingLongHandsWould BeWhiteNovelToo MuchPaperComputerMarkSticksEdits Author:Nicholas Sparks
“Pen-and-paper role-playing is live theater and computer games are television. People want the convenience and instant gratification of turning on the TV rather than getting dressed up and going out to see a live play. In the same way, the computer is a more immediately accessible way to play games.” PeopleWayWantPlayGamesRolesTelevisionTvsPaperComputerTheaterInstantPensGoing OutGratificationConvenienceDressed UpInstant GratificationGetting DressedComputer GamesRole PlayingLive TheaterGetting Dressed Up Author:Gary Gygax
“It's can you, Steve Wozniak, design the same computer - maybe it's a Varian 620i - can you design it on paper with fewer chips than last month? Can you design it with 79 chips instead of 80 chips? I had played this game so long that I had all these little tricks in my head that I can't even explain... Nothing was wasted; absolutely zero waste. I told this story recently to the Resource Recovery Association, recycling, and they loved to hear I didn't believe in waste.” BelieveLittlesLongI CanStoriesLastsGamesDesignMonthsWastePaperComputerResourcesTricksRecoveryZeroAssociationFewerChipsRecycling Author:Steve Wozniak
“Money, after all, is an abstract artifact, like language - merely symbolized by the paper or coin or whatever. If you can fully grasp its abstractedness, especially in the computer age, it becomes quite clear that no group can monopolize this abstraction, except through a series of swindle. If the usurers had been bolder, they might have monopolized language as well as currency, and people would be saying we can't write more books because we don't have enough words, the way they now say we can't build starships, because we don't have enough money.” PeopleIfsWayWritingWellsBookEnoughMightWould BeAgeLanguageClearGroupsPaperComputerSeriesAbstractCurrencyCoinsAbstractionArtifacts Author:Robert Anton Wilson
“Writing, and especially writing a novel, where you get to sit in a room by yourself with either a pen and a paper or a computer for a couple of years, is a very solitary occupation. You can read sales figures - a hundred thousand books sold, half a million books sold - but they are just numbers.” WritingYearsBookRoomsNumbersHalfMillionsNovelFiguresCoupleThousandPaperComputerHundredPensOccupationSolitary Author:Neil Gaiman
“It's amazing how many people even today use a computer to do something you can do with a pencil and paper in less time.” PeopleUseTodayCan DoPaperComputerSimplicityPencils Author:Richard P. Feynman
“It seems to me the book has not just aesthetic values - the charming little clothy box of the thing, the smell of the glue, even the print, which has its own beauty. But there's something about the sensation of ink on paper that is in some sense a thing, a phenomenon rather than an epiphenomenon. I can't break the association of electric trash with the computer screen. Words on the screen give the sense of being just another passing electronic wriggle.” GivingLittlesI CanBookSeemsValuesBreakInternetPaperComputerBoxesSmellScreensPassingPassingsPrintPhenomenonSensationsAssociationAestheticElectricFree SpeechCharmingInkTrashGlueComputer Screen Author:John Updike
“I've never felt really creative or intuitive using software. I like paper and pens and paint. I need to angle real lights on my artwork and work with my hands and build props. Computers just take all that fun out of it [animation drawing].” NeedsRealHandsLightFunFeltCreativePaperComputerPaintDrawingPensSoftwareAngleIntuitiveAnimationPropsArtworkPaper And Pen Author:Don Hertzfeldt
“A big book is a hard thing to manage - I find the computer makes it easier to keep it in order, and to keep the old drafts (which I sometimes go back to) without drowning in paper.” BookSometimesHardBigsOrderEasierPaperComputerManageDrowningHard ThingsBig Book Author:Kate Grenville
“For me, between "Reference" and "Sketching & Conceptualizing" is the "Get the Hell Out of the Studio" step. I most often NEED to shut off the computer, push myself back from my desk and escape the studio space to let possible ideas percolate in my gray matter before committing anything to paper or digital imagery as a sketch or a concept.” NeedsIdeasMatterSpaceStepsHellPaperComputerConceptsStudiosDigitalGrayDesksImagerySketchingGray MatterStudio Space Author:Jeff Fisher
“I can write anything and just put it in a zine, and then it's out there. It is like blogging but on paper. It is what I started to do before the computers were all popular.” WritingI CanPaperComputerBloggingZines Author:Mark Gonzales
“I like paper statements rather than relying on computers. I feel more in control if my account details and transactions are broken down on paper.” IfsFeelsBrokenPaperComputerAccountsDetailsStatementsTransactionsBroken Down Author:Geoff Capes
“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
“Most composers and arrangers these days use computer programs and keyboards, but I'm one of those dinosaurs that still writes it down on score paper and still dreams it up in his ear first.” WritingFirstsStillsUseDreamPaperComputerProgramEarsThese DaysScoreComposerDinosaursKeyboards Author:Phil Coulter
“There are times where I would keep three typewriters on a table, and I'd have three complete thoughts going. With computers, you make folders, files - I don't know about those things. I have sheaves of paper polluted with words and paragraphs. I found it a good tool for me. And it keeps your hands strong for guitar playing.” KnowsHandsThreeFoundStrongPaperComputerToolsTablesGuitarFilesParagraphTypewritersGuitar PlayingFolders Author:Eddie Vedder
“My standards are higher than they used to be, I think. They don't necessarily have to make sense, but I certainly work on them a lot harder now -- partly because I do them on the computer, and I print them out and fix them, and print them and fix them over and over again, whereas in the early days I used to just scratch down a few things on a piece of paper.” ThinkingUsedPiecesHigherPaperComputerStandardsHarderUsed To BeMake SensePrintScratches Author:Dean Wareham
“I don't even own a computer. I write by hand then I type it up on an old manual typewriter. But I cross out a lot - I'm not writing in stone tablets, it's just ink on paper. I don't feel comfortable without a pen or a pencil in my hand. I can't think with my fingers on the keyboard. Words are generated for me by gripping the pen, and pressing the point on the paper.” ThinkingFeelsWritingI CanHandsTypePaperComfortableComputerStonesCrossesFingersPensOld ManPencilsInkTypewritersManualsKeyboardsGrippingTablets Author:Paul Auster
“If I am used to looking at a paper chart and finding information that I know approximately where I'm going to look at that and now I have to go to a computer and find it a different way.” IfsKnowsWayLooksDifferentUsedInformationPaperFindingsComputerDifferent Ways Author:William Davis
“In terms of how the music developed, it was my normal process, which I would say is really a hybrid process of sketching on bits of paper, playing the piano, playing synthesisers, using the computer, staring out of the window, finding things I'd forgotten about, happy accidents, failed plans, best intentions, equipment failures. It is a multidimensional process incorporating a lot of planning and intention and a lot of randomness. Ultimately I just follow the material where it wants to go a lot of the time.” WantBitsProcessTermPlansMaterialsNormalPaperFindingsComputerWindowIntentionForgottenAccidentsPlanningStaringPianoEquipmentHybridRandomnessSketchingBest IntentionsIncorporatingHappy AccidentsPiano Playing Author:Max Richter
“Computer chips will cost about a penny. That's the cost of scrap paper. The Internet will be basically for free and it will be inside our contact lens. When we blink, we will go online. When we see somebody that we don't recognize, our contact lens will identify who they are, print out their biography in your contact lens and translate, if they're speaking Chinese, into English with subtitles as they speak.” IfsSpeakInternetCostPaperComputerContactChineseOnlinePrintTranslateBiographiesLensesChipsPenniesScrapBlinkSubtitlesContact Lenses Author:Michio Kaku
“To compare books to computers, I mean, computers are the way to get books. That is the medium for distributing text because it doesn't require paper.” WayMeanBookPaperComputerMediumsCompare Author:Nicholas Negroponte
“When I look at what I'm doing today, I see [the] roots in my college life. I was the online editor of my college paper and an active member of the Harvard Computer Society. I abandoned a summer internship at the Washington Post due to injury and instead did theatre. I found my comedic voice through satirical newsletters in college.” LooksTodayFoundVoiceCollegeMembersPaperComputerSummerRootsActiveDuesTheatrePostsInjuryOnlineEditorsAbandonedHarvardComedicSatiricalCollege LifeInternshipsNewsletters Author:Baratunde Thurston
“I am not one of the new media experts working all the time with my computers and the PowerPoint's and things of that sort. So, I'm an old fashioned still in this regard but these are the moment where I really can be creative, if I am, to be left alone with just a book and piece of paper and to be thinking.” IfsThinkingStillsBookMomentsLeftCreativePiecesMediaPaperComputerRegardExpertsBe CreativeOld FashionedLeft AloneNew MediaPowerpointWorking All The Time Author:Ahmed H. Zewail
“I still write with pen and paper and have someone type it on a computer. But rewriting I do by hand.” WritingStillsHandsTypePaperComputerPensRewriting Author:Natalie Goldberg
“If you've been paying attention to politics for the last, you know, 30 years, it would not have shocked you, but what was amazing was that there it was, you know, in irrefutable colors, you know, there on paper, or there on your computer screen.” IfsKnowsYearsLastsAttentionColorPaperComputerScreensPay AttentionShockedComputer Screen Author:Jill Stein
“While I'm acting I'm focused on what I'm trying to say through the character. And when I'm writing, I'm just putting down on paper or on the computer what I have to say.” WritingTryingCharacterActingPaperComputerFocused Author:Meital Dohan
“It doesn't matter how many televisions and computers and pieces of stereo equipment the Chinese send to us, even if they're sending them to us only in return for some funny, little, green pieces of paper. That is a balanced trade. They got what they wanted: the green pieces of paper. We got what we wanted: the plush toys, the computers, the stereo components.” IfsLittlesMatterWantedPiecesTelevisionReturnPaperComputerGreenTradeChineseToysBalancedEquipmentComponents Author:P. J. O'Rourke
“I think it would be cool if you were writing a ransom note on your computer, if the paper clip popped up and said, 'Looks like you're writing a ransom note. Need help? You should use more forceful language, you'll get more money.'” IfsThinkingNeedsShouldWritingLooksSaidHelpingUseHumorWould BeFunnyLanguageLike YouPaperComputerNotesMore MoneyBeing CoolNeed HelpClipRansomPaper Clips Author:Demetri Martin
“Computers may save time but they sure waste a lot of paper. About 98 percent of everything printed out by a computer is garbage that no one ever reads.” MayLiteratureWastePaperComputerPercentClassroomGarbagePrinted Book:Not That You Asked... Source: Not That You Asked...
“I'd like people to be educated on the voting machines, making sure that our democracy isn't being hijacked by computer technology. There's no reason there can't be a paper trail on those machines.” PeopleReasonTechnologyDemocracyPaperComputerMachinesEducatedVotingNo ReasonTrailsComputer Technology Author:Eddie Vedder
“Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we'd get documents with a few errors. Now, people make hundreds of copies until each sheet is flawless and memos are duplicated endlessly. Managers get swamped with emails.” PeoplePaperComputerErrorsManagersCopiesDocumentsSheetsEmailFlawlessMemos Author:Felix Dennis
“I still love books. Nothing a computer can do can compare to a book. You can't really put a book on the Internet. Three companies have offered to put books by me on the Net, and I said, 'If you can make something that has a nice jacket, nice paper with that nice smell, then we'll talk.' All the computer can give you is a manuscript. People don't want to read manuscripts. They want to read books. Books smell good. They look good. You can press it to your bosom. You can carry it in your pocket.” PeopleIfsWantGivingLooksSaidStillsBookThreeCan DoCompanyNiceInternetPaperComputerPressesSmellComparePocketsJacketsBosomsManuscripts Author:Ray Bradbury
“The good news (for writers) is that this means that ebooks on computers are more likely to be an enticement to buy the printed book (which is, after all, cheap, easily had, and easy to use) than a substitute for it. You can probably read just enough of the book off the screen to realize you want to be reading it on paper.” WantMeanBookEnoughUseReadingEasyRealizingPaperComputerNewsScreensSubstitutesGood NewsPrintedEnticementPrinted Books Author:Cory Doctorow
“That's what I love about writing. Once you get the words down on paper, in print, they start to make sense. It's like you don't know what you think until it dribbles from your brain down your arm and into your hand and out through your fingers and shows up on the computer screen, and you read it and realize: That's really true; I believe that.” ThinkingKnowsWritingBelieveShowsHandsI BelieveRealizingBrainLike YouArmsPaperComputerFingersScreensMake SensePrintReally TrueDribbleComputer Screen Book:Hard Love Source: Hard Love
“Nick sat beside Simon, who was at his computer. Marcus stood at attention beside the food. Hale had his feet on the table, reading the morning paper. And someone had given the Bagshaws a gun. 'Pull!' Hamish yelled, and Angus pulled a cord and sent a skeet flying across the deep blue water. A split second later, a loud crack was reverberating across the deck. Kat jumped. Hale sighed. The shot went far wide, and Marcus never moved a muscle.” ReadingGivenWaterAttentionMorningFeetPaperComputerGunShotsBlueTablesMovedWideFlyingLoudSatMusclesCracksSplitsDeckCordsHaleBlue Water Author:Ally Carter
“Mort drove one of those little hybrid cars that, when not running on gasoline, was fueled by idealism. It was made out of crepe paper and duct tape and boasted a computer system that looked like it could have run the NYSE and NORAD, with enough attention left over to play tic-tac-toe. Or possibly Global Thermonuclear War.” LittlesMadeWarEnoughPlayRunningLeftAttentionCarPaperComputerTapeIdealismToesHybridGasolineDuct TapeTicsCrepesComputer SystemsTic TacsHybrid Cars Book:Ghost Story: A Novel of the Dresden Files Source: Ghost Story: A Novel of the Dresden Files