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• Most writers I know have switched to word processors. I haven't but I'm very curious about why people like it so much. I think it has something to do with the fact that at last writing, which has been such an old-fashioned, artisanal activity, even on a typewriter, has now entered the central domain of modern experience which is that of making copies, being involved in the world of duplicates and machine-mediated activities.

  Susan Sontag

  Writing, Thinking, Typewriters

  Source: ctheory.net

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• Scrivener is where I live. I'm planning the next novel, two screenplays and a couple of short stories with it and it's amazing how fluid the software makes the process. I genuinely think this is the biggest software advance for writers since the word processor.

  Michael Marshall Smith

  Couple, Thinking, Two

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• The establishment of formal standards for proofs about programs... and the proposal that the semantics of a programming language may be defined independently of all processors for that language, by establishing standards of rigor for proofs about programs in the language, appears to be novel.

  Robert W. Floyd

  May, Language, Proposal

  "Assigning Meanings to Programs" by Robert W. Floyd, published in "Proceedings of Symposium on Applied Mathematics", Volume 19 (pp. 19-20), 1967.

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• I don't own a computer. I've never seen anything online at all - nothing. I don't own a word processor. I have none of that stuff. It's not an act of rebellion. I'm just not a gadget person.

  Woody Allen

  Gadgets, Stuff, Computer

  "Woody Allen On ‘Irrational Man’, His Movies & Hollywood’s Perilous Path – Cannes Q&A" by Mike Fleming Jr, deadline.com. May 14, 2015.

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• One of the things that's interesting is that the PC has always had a huge amount of scalability. It was sort of the wild dog that moved into Australia and killed all the local life because it could just adapt. There used to be these dedicated devices, like dedicated word processors.

  Gabe Newell

  Dog, Australia, Interesting

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I do write my manuscripts by hand, in pencil on legal pads. Then they are typed on a word processor by my typist.

  Nelson DeMille

  Writing, Hands, Pads

  Talk City Network Interview, www.bookbrowse.com. 2000.

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• I'm such a slow writer I have no need for anything as fast as a word processor. I don't need anything so snappy. I write so slowly that I could write in my own blood without hurting myself.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Hurt, Writing, Blood

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• My big dream back then was to buy an IBM Selectric. I still have that dream. I really ought to buy a word-processor. Half the cabbies at Rocky own computers. They tell me they can write failed novels ten times faster on a PC.

  Gary Reilly

  Dream, Writing, Half

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• Anyone who slaps a 'this page is best viewed with Browser X' label on a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web, when you had very little chance of reading a document written on another computer, another word processor, or another network.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Reading, Labels, Littles

  "MIT Technology Review" Magazine, July 1996.

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• Of 472 civilian occupations defined by the Department of Commerce, only six are majority immigrant (legal and illegal). These six occupations account for 1 percent of the total U.S. workforce. Many jobs often thought to be overwhelmingly done by immigrants are in fact majority native-born: 51 percent of maids are U.S.-born, as are 63 percent of butchers and meat processors, and 73 percent of janitors.

  Mark Krikorian

  Jobs, Occupation, Facts

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• Both instruments are processors of information. Both appeared when nothing quite like them had existed before, and both began to make their effects felt immediately (a situation that isn't invariable with new technology). Both devices were less the result of a single breakthrough than of an evolving set of technologies. Like the computer, the printing press had no one certain inventor; it was a technology whose time had come.

  Pamela McCorduck

  Technology, Information, Computer

  Pamela McCorduck (1985). “The Universal Machine: Confessions of a Technological Optimist”, New York : McGraw-Hill

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• As processor speeds and shared processors create cheap unlimited processing power we will be able to turn our bodies into a math equation that can be crossed against the properties of medicine and nature to create medicine unique to each individual.

  Mark Cuban

  Math, Unique, Medicine

  Interview with Ryan Babikian, elitedaily.com. May 30, 2012.

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• The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor.

  Stephen King

  Kings, Writing, Fool

  Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.145, Simon and Schuster

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• I use emacs, which might be thought of as a thermonuclear word processor.

  Neal Stephenson

  Use, Might

  "In the Beginning... Was the Command Line". Essay by Neal Stephenson, web.stanford.edu. 1999.

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• Writing is a lonely job. Even if a writer socializes regularly, when he gets down to the real business of his life, it is he and his type writer or word processor. No one else is or can be involved in the matter.

  Isaac Asimov

  Lonely, Jobs, Real

  Isaac Asimov (2009). “I, Asimov: A Memoir”, p.134, Bantam

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• I am violently untidy. My desk is overcrowded. I write my first drafts in longhand in a long notebook using a plastic throwaway fountain pen. Then I work on a word processor using a different desk and a different room.

  Colm Toibin

  Notebook, Writing, Long

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• The vast majority of us imagine ourselves as like literature people or math people. But the truth is that the massive processor known as the human brain is neither a literature organ or a math organ. It is both and more.

  John Green

  Math, People, Brain

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• I think that autistic brains tend to be specialized brains. Autistic people tend to be less social. It takes a ton of processor space in the brain to have all the social circuits.

  Temple Grandin

  Thinking, Space, People

  "A Conversation with Temple Grandin". "Talk of the Nation Science Friday" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. January 20, 20064.

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• When the simple word processors came in, writing became crisper, less dense - just because of the way we could instantly edit on the screen. Now the ability to mash up words and pictures and links and songs and tweets is what matters. I can't imagine what writing will be like in 2154.

  Gail Collins

  Song, Writing, Simple

  "Will Journalism Go the Way of Whaling?". Interview with David Brooks and Gail Collins, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. February 27, 2013.

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• Everyone makes pesto in a food processor. But the texture is better with a mortar and pestle, and it's just as fast.

  Mario Batali

  Texture, Mortar

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• Many individual growers now are growing organic fruit, and many are taking it upon themselves to market their own products to the public, as opposed to necessarily going through big processors, although, obviously, the bulk of the fruit still is dealt with that way.

  Greg Walden

  Growing, Way, Fruit

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• The last time somebody said, 'I find I can write much better with a word processor', I replied, 'They used to say the same thing about drugs'.

  Roy Blount, Jr.

  Time, Book, Writing

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• Then after that came word processors and it's hard to make those laugh.

  Denis Norden

  Laughing, Hard

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• I know there are writers who get up every morning and sit by their typewriter or word processor or pad of paper and wait to write. I don't function that way. I go through a long period of gestation before I'm even ready to write.

  Wole Soyinka

  Morning, Writing, Typewriters

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• I don't separate writing songs from poetry and short fiction. In the area where I work in my house, there's a word processor and a guitar.

  Steve Earle

  Song, Writing, Guitar

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