Laptops Quotes - Page 4

• We writers dream of a future where actors are mostly computer generated and their performances can be adjusted, by us, on a laptop, alone.

  Tina Fey

  Dream, Writing, Actors

  4 Copy quote

• I've been approached about doing some live performance collaborations with DJ's. That is something I'd be interested in getting into down the line, but I've worked very hard to distinguish myself as a laptop artist.

  Girl Talk

  Artist, Lines, Collaboration

  Source: uproxx.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I still have my laptop but I haven't used it. I'm a paper man, not electronic.

  Carlos Slim

  Technology, Men, Paper

  18 Copy quote

• The Harvard Business Review recently had an article called 'The Human Moment,' about how to make real contact with a person at work: ... The fundamental thing you have to do is turn off your BlackBerry, close your laptop, end your daydream and pay full attention to the person.

  Daniel Goleman

  Motivation, Real, Inspiration

  10 Copy quote

• I do have an office where about 70 percent of my writing gets done, but sometimes it does get a bit stir-crazy to be cooped up in there, so I'll grab my laptop and write somewhere else: another room in the house, out on the patio, or even Heaven-forbid, a trip to Starbucks. But I also write on the road.

  James Rollins

  Travel, Crazy, Writing

  4 Copy quote

• Not fair? Oh, I'm sorry I get this lovely laptop computing device when all you get is the ability to walk, control your hands, and know you'll survive until your eighteenth birthday." Then the kid was going, "Uh, I didn't mean..." But Tad wasn't done yet. While the whole class watched in horror, he put his hands through the metal support braces on the arms of his wheelchair and forced himself to stand up. Then he took a shaky little step to the side, gestured toward the chair, and said, "Why don't you take a turn with the laptop? You can even have my seat.

  Jordan Sonnenblick

  Sorry, Mean, Kids

  5 Copy quote

• It’s the way he had a cup of tea waiting for me when I woke up. It’s the way he turned on his laptop especially for me to look up all my Internet horoscopes and helped me choose the best one. He knows all the crappy, embarrassing bits about me that I normally try to hide from any man for as long as possible… and he loves me anyway.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Men, Long, Waiting

  4 Copy quote

• When forced to leave my house for an extended period of time, I take my typewriter with me, and together we endure the wretchedness of passing through the X-ray scanner. The laptops roll merrily down the belt, while I’m instructed to stand aside and open my bag. To me it seems like a normal enough thing to be carrying, but the typewriter’s declining popularity arouses suspicion and I wind up eliciting the sort of reaction one might expect when traveling with a cannon. It’s a typewriter,’ I say. ‘You use it to write angry letters to airport security.

  David Sedaris

  Writing, Airports, Typewriters

  David Sedaris (2000). “Me talk pretty one day”

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• My start came with experimental musicians and live bands. I never played with DJ's because it wasn't really the correct fit. It fit in more with someone using a laptop to create their own electronic music. When you're doing music like that, it's hard to get more than 20 people to come to your show.

  Girl Talk

  People, Musician, Band

  Source: uproxx.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I've tried a lot of different apps to manage Twitter on my phone (I use Hootsuite on my laptop), but I think the official Twitter app is really good.

  Susan Orlean

  Thinking, Phones, Different

  "iPhone Home: Susan Orlean". www.newyorker.com. January 31, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Students do everything on laptops these days, so I definitely think electronic books are a trend that's going to expand.

  Steven Pinker

  Book, Thinking, Trends

  4 Copy quote

• By the way, today with digital cameras and editing on your laptop, and things like that, you can make a feature film, a narrative feature film easily for $10,000.

  Werner Herzog

  Editing, Cameras, Narrative

  Source: collider.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Distribution has really changed. You can make a record with a laptop in the morning and have it up on YouTube in the afternoon and be a star overnight. The talent on YouTube is incredible, and it can spread like wildfire. The downside is that it's very hard to convince the younger generation that they should pay for music.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Morning, Stars, Generations

  10 Copy quote

• Just because you can make an album on a laptop computer in your back bedroom doesn't mean it's going to be any good. Like any 'product', it has to come from a good original idea. There are no shortcuts!

  Horace Panter

  Mean, Ideas, Albums

  Source: louderthanwar.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Today we no longer live in a way that is constrained by simple working or leisure environments - we travel, we work on laptops in coffee shops, we go out to dinner straight from work.

  Giorgio Armani

  Coffee, Simple, Dinner

  Interview with Aaron Howes, www.highsnobiety.com. October 5, 2016.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I don't think there is one size that fits all. I've been to too many meetings with journalists who spent the first 10 minutes of the meeting setting up iPad to look like a laptop.

  Steve Ballmer

  Thinking, Ipads, Looks

  "Steve Ballmer: Apple Has Sold More iPads Than I'd Like" by Jay Yarow, www.businessinsider.com. July 29, 2010.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Whether it's watching a $4,000 laptop fall off the conveyor belt at airport security, contending with a software conflict that corrupted your file management system, or begging your family to stop opening those virus-carrying 'greeting cards' attached to emails, all computer owners are highly leveraged and highly vulnerable technology investors.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Fall, Technology, Airports

  7 Copy quote

• Nerd. Geek. Used to be if you self-identified that way, you'd get thrown into a locker and never have sex. Or worse, whatever that is. But to me and more and more people I know, being a nerd or a geek means having passion, power, intelligence. Being a nerd just means there is something in the world that you care deeply about—be it twelve-sided dice, a favorite sports team, your new laptop or Night Rider.

  Olivia Munn

  Sports, Sex, Team

  Olivia Munn, Mac Montandon (2010). “Suck It, Wonder Woman!: The Misadventures of a Hollywood Geek”, p.52, St. Martin's Press

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• We don't know where we get our ideas from. What we do know is that we do not get them from our laptops.

  John Cleese

  Ideas, Knows

  14 Copy quote

• Annabeth came up to me. She was dressed in black camouflage with her Celestial bronze knife strapped to her arm and her laptop bag slung over her shoulder—ready for stabbing or surfing the Internet, whichever came first.

  Rick Riordan

  Knives, Surfing, Black

  35 Copy quote

• She probably gave up and started playing Minesweeper." [...] We reached the cafe and found Sydney bent over her laptop, with a barely eaten Danish and what was probably her fourth cup of coffee. We slid into seats beside her. "How's it—hey! You ARE playing Minesweeper!

  Richelle Mead

  Coffee, Hey, Cafes

  4 Copy quote

• It will lead many musicians out of the cul-de-sac they currently face. And those that do not understand will be cursed to make disposable music on laptops forever.

  Chilly Gonzales

  Forever, Musician, Faces

  "Daft Punk: Cover Story Outtakes" by Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. May 15, 2013.

  53 Copy quote

  Show source

• Once you get to naming your laptop, you know that you're really having a deep relationship with it.

  Cory Doctorow

  Deep Relationship, Knows

  Cory Doctorow (2010). “Little Brother”, p.85, Macmillan

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I've got my laptop, but it troubles me in many ways. I don't have Twitter or Facebook or anything like that. It ruins a romantic idea, which might just be an illusion, a sense of depth or continuity. I know there are lots of positives in the evolution of technology, but I also think it will be responsible for the end of a unique character, of a specific kind of geographical culture. The world is getting so small, and mass production is getting so big. Everything is in danger of becoming the same.

  Laura Marling

  Character, Unique, Technology

  12 Copy quote

• Now, 75 years later in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books. Instant information is not for me. I prefer to search library stacks because when I work to learn something, I remember it. And, Oprah, can you imagine curling up in bed to read a computer? Weeping for Anna Karenina and being terrified by Hannibal Lecter, entering the heart of darkness with Mistah Kurtz, having Holden Caulfield ring you up — some things should happen on soft pages, not cold metal.

  Harper Lee

  Book, Heart, Phones

  38 Copy quote