“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
“I was actually a fruitarian at that point in time. I ate only fruit. Now I'm a garbage can like everyone else. And we were about three months late in filing a fictitious business name so I threatened to call the company Apple Computer unless someone suggested a more interesting name by five o'clock that day. Hoping to stimulate creativity. And it stuck. And that's why we're called Apple.” ThreeNamesInterestingBusinessCompanyCreativityFiveMonthsGeniusComputerLateFruitStuckClockApplesThreatenedGarbageThree MonthsFilingGarbage Cans Author:Steve Jobs
“I usually write on a computer - unless I get stuck, at which point I switch to write by hand. I think that's common among writers if they get cornered on something.” IfsThinkingWritingHandsCommonComputerStuckCornered Author:David Nicholls
“Without computers we will be stuck only proving theorems that have short proofs.” ScienceProveComputerMathematicsProofStuckTheorems Author:Kenneth Appel
“I started producing in 1992 at the age of 15, when I found out music could be made with the help of a computer. I come from a musical family, but was always the family member not as good as the others. So once I found out I could release the music that was stuck inside my head through a computer, I knew I found what I wanted to do for the rest of my life.” MadeHelpingAgeWantedFoundMembersComputerMusicalStuckReleaseFamily Members Author:Laidback Luke
“I've been programming computers since elementary school, where they taught us, and I stuck with computer science through high school and college.” SchoolTaughtCollegeComputerHigh SchoolStuckProgrammingComputer ScienceTaught UsElementary School Author:Masi Oka
“I've got stress like anybody else, and it builds up during the day. Like, I'll be trying to do something on the computer, and I'll get stuck ,so I go to the help section. And it just enrages me, because why even call it a help section at all? There's nothing in any way 'helpful' about it.” WayTryingHelpingComputerStressStuckHelpfulSections Author:Lewis Black