“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
“Major power and telephone grids have long been controlled by computer networks, but now similar systems are embedded in such mundane objects as electric meters, alarm clocks, home refrigerators and thermostats, video cameras, bathroom scales, and Christmas-tree lights - all of which are, or soon will be, accessible remotely.” LongHomeLightTreeObjectsComputerMajorsCamerasScalesVideoClockControlledElectricTelephonesBathroomMundaneAlarmsEmbeddedMeterRefrigeratorsGridsChristmas TreeAlarm ClocksVideo Cameras Author:Charles C. Mann
“Technology has come such a long way and you could pretty much do everything what's called 'in the box'. It means that it never has to leave your computer.” WayMeanLongTechnologyComputerBoxesLong Way Author:Tony Vincent
“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
“Comedy has sort of been my life-long obsession. I literally obsessed over comedy. I really didn't play sports - for me it was just comedy, computers and chess club; those were my big things.” LongPlayBigsSportsComedyComputerClubsChessObsessionObsessedBig ThingsLong Life Author:Chris Hardwick
“I don't like people who sit on computers all day long and write about people they don't know anything about.” PeopleKnowsWritingLongComputer Author:Paris Hilton